Comment (by Roland Haas):

@He Jia these errors indicate that your wvuthorns and other repositorys (mclachlan) is not on the newest master and in particular is lacking some commits.

I am afraid the branch rhaas/test_full_pointerto is only applicable to a master checkout of the toolkit and not an ET_2020_05 checkout.

For using the release code, and if you really need to use the old gcc 4.8 compiler (which I advise against), please try one of the two alternatives I had suggested: if that is not possible you will have to either go back to check out ET_2020_05_v0 instead of the branch ET_2020_05 or (manually) edit configs/sim/config-data/cctk_Config.h and change HAVE_CCTK_F_TYPE_STAR from 1 to 0.

Note that in my tests gcc 4.9 works fine with the release code.

To checkout out ET_2020_05_v0 (not the _v0) you will have to edit the thornlist einsteintoolkit.th that GetComponents uses to set RELEASE_BRANCH to ET_2020_05_v0 instead of ET_2020_05.

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Ticket URL: https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2455/cannot-build-et-assumed-rank-argument