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[Methylene]

Anyone else exprience this?

It's strange, I don't remember installing gcc updates until this morning, and last night I was getting this error after trying to revert to the 1.1 sdk.

/usr/include/brook/brtvector.hpp error: explicit template specialization cannot have a storage class        BrookTerrain    line 190-195

The bug is simple, in some newer versions of GCC you cannot use the static keyword in a template...  I'm not sure how this effects anything, but I haven't had any problems yet.

Simply removing the static key word around line 188 in brook/brtvector.hpp in your includes directory is a fix.

Or you can patch with this using patch -p0 in the brook include directory...

[Poozon]

I had the same problem. I just use GCC 4.2 and these compilation errors do not occur in this version of GCC.

[qneill]

From http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.3/porting_to.html:

Explicit template specialization cannot have a storage class

Specializations of templates cannot explicitly specify a storage class, and
have the same storage as the primary template. This is a change from previous
behavior, based on the feedback and commentary as part of the ISO C++ Core
Defect Report 605.

template<typename T> static void foo();  template<> static void foo<void>(); 

Gives:

error: explicit template specialization cannot have a storage class 

This also happens with the extern specifier. Fixing this is
easy: just remove any storage specifier on the specialization. Like so:

template<typename T> static void foo();  template<> void foo<void>();