Inline definition problem in current

[Ben Kelly]

On Mar 23, 2009, at 6:31 PM, Gustau Perez wrote:
> a few time ago I switched to current, right now I've it updated to  
> yesterday.  While compiling some ports (in fact, building x11/ 
> gnome2) I found that some of them (written in C) are using  some  
> inline functions (I guess it is because the compiler will replace  
> the call to the function with the function itself). The problem is  
> that gcc fails with the following message :
>              error: nested function 'XXX' declared but never defined
>
>  checking the code, the function is declared and then implemented in  
> a header file which is included in the offending .c file. The  
> function is declared as 'inline'. The only solution I found is to  
> change the definition to static.
>
>  Checking pontyhat shows me that many ports are failing because of  
> this problem. What I can understand is why is this happening,  
> because the same ports compiles fine in STABLE and the compilers's  
> version in base seems to be the same (gcc (GCC) 4.2.1 20070719   
> [FreeBSD], the same in current)
>  Can anyone help with this problem ?

Check out the arch@ discussion about "C99 Inlines" and this commit:

   http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=189824

It seems like they might be related.

Hope that helps.

- Ben