On 03/06/08 at 14:44 -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> Hello and thanks for the report.
> 
> By the way, do you have the configure.log file available from the build?
> That would help my diagnosis of the problem.

No, sorry. But I could re-run a build, if really necessary.

> <rant>I have to say, it is not helpful to tag something "FTBFS on i386"
> when that is in fact not the case.  It builds just fine in unstable on
> i386.  And to test your assertion regarding gcc-4.3, I need to dig into
> the non-standard build system of my package to discover its C compiler
> option, or perhaps install gcc-defaults from experimental.
> 
> A more sensible approach would be to transition gcc and friends first,
> then file the bugs.  If these bugs are supposed to be "serious" for
> lenny, then let's make them so.  I've been waiting for months for this
> transition to happen on i386 (and amd64), and meanwhile fixing bugs
> which come with patches.  What's the reason for the delay, cf. the rush
> to file "serious" bugs?</rant>

I've been waiting too, and most arches have transitioned to gcc-4.3. The
easiest way to test that bug would be to try to build petsc on another
architecture that already switched to gcc-4.3.
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