Cannot compile unittests

[youngar]

When running make unitttests there is a compilation failure:

make unittests
g++ -std=c++11 -m64 -Wno-endif-labels  -DDEBUG -O0 -g -DUNITTESTS -DGC_TYPE=GENERATIONAL -I/home/aryoung/wsp/SOMpp/src -fno-PIC -mcmodel=large -c /home/aryoung/wsp/SOMpp/src/unitTests/CloneObjectsTest.cpp -o /home/aryoung/wsp/SOMpp/src/unitTests/CloneObjectsTest.o
g++ -std=c++11 -m64 -Wno-endif-labels  -DDEBUG -O0 -g -DUNITTESTS -DGC_TYPE=GENERATIONAL -I/home/aryoung/wsp/SOMpp/src -fno-PIC -mcmodel=large -c /home/aryoung/wsp/SOMpp/src/unitTests/WalkObjectsTest.cpp -o /home/aryoung/wsp/SOMpp/src/unitTests/WalkObjectsTest.o
In file included from /usr/include/cppunit/portability/Stream.h:283:0,
                 from /usr/include/cppunit/TestAssert.h:7,
                 from /usr/include/cppunit/TestCase.h:6,
                 from /usr/include/cppunit/TestCaller.h:5,
                 from /usr/include/cppunit/extensions/HelperMacros.h:9,
                 from /home/aryoung/wsp/SOMpp/src/unitTests/WalkObjectsTest.h:27,
                 from /home/aryoung/wsp/SOMpp/src/unitTests/WalkObjectsTest.cpp:11:
/usr/include/c++/7.2.0/sstream:300:7: error: ‘struct std::__cxx11::basic_stringbuf<_CharT, _Traits, _Alloc>::__xfer_bufptrs’ redeclared with different access
       struct __xfer_bufptrs
       ^~~~~~
make: *** [/home/aryoung/wsp/SOMpp/build/Linux.make:76: /home/aryoung/wsp/SOMpp/src/unitTests/WalkObjectsTest.o] Error 1

I believe it is caused by the following macros definitions, which are used in the unit tests.

src/unitTests/CloneObjectsTest.cpp:10:#define private public
src/unitTests/WalkObjectsTest.cpp:10:#define private public
src/unitTests/WriteBarrierTest.cpp:6:#define private public

Using

Arch Linux 
Linux aryoung-tp 4.13.11-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Nov 2 10:25:56 CET 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux

gcc (GCC) 7.2.0
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[smarr]

Hi, thanks for the report.

Is this in some way urgent? I suppose it's related to SOM++ OMR?

Without looking into it, my guess would be the easiest work around is to remove these hacky macros, and make the relevant things public so that it compiles.
There is likely a better solution though.

[youngar]

Hi, It's not urgent; I just started looking at SOM today and I couldn't run the unit tests. It's not really relevant to SOM++ OMR.