While trying to install Google v8, I had an error:
v8-read-only$ scons scons: Reading SConscript files ... scons: done reading SConscript files. scons: Building targets ... g++ -o obj/release/api.o -c -Wall -Werror -W -Wno-unused-parameter -Wnon-virtual-dtor -pedantic -m32 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections -ansi -fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -fvisibility=hidden -Wall -Werror -W -Wno-unused-parameter -Wnon-virtual-dtor -pedantic -m32 -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections -ansi -DV8_TARGET_ARCH_IA32 -DENABLE_VMSTATE_TRACKING -DENABLE_LOGGING_AND_PROFILING -DENABLE_DEBUGGER_SUPPORT -Isrc src/api.cc cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors src/handles-inl.h: In static member function 'static void v8::V8::RemoveMessageListeners(void (*)(v8::Handle, v8::Handle))': src/handles-inl.h:50: error: dereferencing pointer '' does break strict-aliasing rules src/handles-inl.h:50: error: dereferencing pointer '' does break strict-aliasing rules src/utils.h:739: note: initialized from here cc1plus: error: dereferencing pointer 'dest' does break strict-aliasing rules cc1plus: error: dereferencing pointer 'dest' does break strict-aliasing rules cc1plus: error: dereferencing pointer 'dest' does break strict-aliasing rules cc1plus: error: dereferencing pointer 'dest' does break strict-aliasing rules src/api.cc:3767: note: initialized from here scons: *** [obj/release/api.o] Error 1 scons: building terminated because of error
Solved by using export GCC_VERSION=44, before running scons.
