[odb-users] Self-compiling ODB on Ubuntu 18.04 (GCC/G++ version 7)

[Boris Kolpackov]

Whisperity <whisperity at gmail.com> writes:

> However, there are many issues with this. Due to some errors with the
> package ABI, self-compilation must be done for ODB. This works nice on
> Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (GNU/G++ version 5), but with G++ 7, it fails.
> 
> This only affects the ODB compiler (odb-2.4.0).

ODB source code has to be adjusted for each major release of GCC (since
they break the API). For GCC 7 you can use the latest pre-release (note
that you also need the included libcutl):

https://codesynthesis.com/~boris/tmp/odb/pre-release/b.3/

Boris