https://smaugmuds.afkmods.com/index.php?a=rssfeed&t=4903 The largest Smaug community resource site. - en SmaugMuds 60 https://smaugmuds.afkmods.com/topic/strange-skill-sort-error-in-ggc-8-compile-4903/&p=23925#p23925 Ok, so, I don't know why this was necessary (cryptic errors suck) but the fix to get it compiling again was simple: skill_index.h [code]class string_sort { public: string_sort( ); bool operator( ) ( const string &, const string & ) const; };[/code] skills.cpp [code]bool string_sort::operator( ) ( const string & left, const string & right ) const { return ( left.compare( right ) < 0 ); }[/code] Sometimes going down the rabbit hole on Google leads to a good guess at https://smaugmuds.afkmods.com/topic/strange-skill-sort-error-in-ggc-8-compile-4903/&p=23925#p23925 Tue, 17 Mar 2020 02:25:52 CDT AFKMud Support & Development nobody@example.com (Samson) https://smaugmuds.afkmods.com/topic/strange-skill-sort-error-in-ggc-8-compile-4903/&p=23924#p23924 I'm preparing an update for AFKMud that will clean up the compile for GCC 8 and ran into something really strange that I don't understand with the skills.cpp file. Here's the error: [code]Building AFKMud.... make -j2 -s afkmud Compiling o/skills.o.... In file included from /usr/include/c++/8/map:60, from mud.h:37, from skills.cpp:33: /usr/include/c++/8/bits/stl_tree.h: In instantiation of ‘static const _Key& std::_Rb_tree<_Key, _Val, _KeyOfValue, https://smaugmuds.afkmods.com/topic/strange-skill-sort-error-in-ggc-8-compile-4903/&p=23924#p23924 Tue, 17 Mar 2020 01:40:52 CDT AFKMud Support & Development nobody@example.com (Samson)