On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 2:20 PM, Pierre Labastie <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 08/05/2016 19:40, Douglas R. Reno wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 1:34 AM, Pierre Labastie <[email protected]
> > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 06/05/2016 16:44, Pierre Labastie wrote:
> >     > Hi,
> >     >
> >     > It looks like GCC 6 adds a level of rigor to C/C++ compiling, and
> that code
> >     > which used to work, does not anymore because it relied on not
> rigorously
> >     > defined behavior.
> >     >
> >     > I guess this is the case for a lot of packages in BLFS. I already
> have found
> >     > (sorry if some of these have been mentionned already, I do not
> have a way to
> >     > search the mail archives ATM):
> >     > harbuzz: may be built with: CC="gcc -std=c99" CXX="g++ -std=c++98"
> ./configure...
> >     > php: may be built with: CC="gcc -std=c99" ./configure...
> >     > libsoup: same
> >     > xorg-evdev-driver: same
> >     > libdrm: same
> >     > gstreamer: same
> >     > gstreamer-plgins-base: same (not tried the other plugins, but I
> guess they
> >     > need the same)
> >     > openjdk: fix not ready yet
> >     >
> >
> >     Update:
> >
> >     When using GCC 6 from an LFS build, only openjdk needs a fix. All
> the other
> >     packages mentioned above work fine.
> >
> >     Pierre
> >
> > I have some theories as to why this is and how to fix it. I am probably
> going
> > to fire up one of my old LFS-7.9 GCC5 builds and see what I can do.
> >
> > I remember reading that libtool should be recompiled when upgrading the
> > compiler. Anyone sure if I am correct?
> >
> > Douglas R. Reno
> >
>
> What I can tell is that some of the failures were coming from undefined
> types
> (like uint or u_char), which are standard glibc types. I guess the reason
> is
> that header files were not input in the necessary order. Why it is so and
> whether it has something to do with libtool, I cannot tell.
>
> Pierre
>
> Looking at all of the build logs on my system (except for PHP and OpenJDK,
as I don't have those built), these all seem to use libtool (grep the build
logs for libtool).

I will have to try these on my GCC5->6 system once GCC6 is finished
compiling.

Douglas R. Reno
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