Hi! On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 18:15:37 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > I have a package[1] that will not transition to testing due to failed > compilation on powerpc. The problem is that the actual package requires > a fairly complete C++11 support in order to compile. I have tried to > signify this by adding "Build-Depends: gcc (>= 4:4.7)" to the dependencies. > > On PowerPC, despite gcc version 4.7 (and, indeed, 4.8) being available, > the "gcc" package is for version 4.6.4. This means that without some > platform specific tricks in the package (as I don't have a PowerPC > platform, these tricks are hard to know), the package fails > dependencies. Even if that were not the case, the package would fail to > build, as gcc points to gcc-4.6.4. > > Is there some better way to cause the system to use a C++11 capable > compiler?
You should usually (depending on the upstream build system) be able to force a different compiler with something like «make CXX=g++-4.8», or at configure time for example. You'll need to depend explicitly on g++-4.8 though. Regards, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130515160131.ga14...@gaara.hadrons.org