On 30/09/16 12:21, Guido Günther wrote: > Hi Emilio, > On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 12:12:55PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >> On 02/09/16 08:39, Guido Günther wrote: >>> On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 01:26:05AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >>>> On 08/08/16 10:20, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >>>>> On Mon, 08 Aug 2016, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >>>>>>> Shall we mark gcc-4.8 as unsupported in wheezy, explaining that its only >>>>>>> purpose is to enable build of other packages? >>>>>> >>>>>> That would make sense. >>>>>> >>>>>> I'll see if I can take a look at this. >>>>> >>>>> The problematic part is likely libstdc++. I would expect the new gcc to >>>>> assume that you have the corresponding libstdc++. >>>>> >>>>> Mike once told that Firefox has special code to avoid the increased >>>>> dependency but that might not be the case of other packages that we might >>>>> want to build with a newer gcc. >>>> >>>> I had a look at this. Matthias pointed me to gcc-mozilla from Ubuntu, >>>> which is >>>> GCC 4.8.4 shipped in one package. I built that for Wheezy, then built >>>> firefox_49.0~b1-1 using that. I had to disable PIE, but other than that it >>>> built >>>> fine and seems to work well. So I think we could go this route. >>>> >>>> For GCC at least we need to drop the gfdl bits, and we may want to update >>>> to >>>> 4.8.5, but in general it seems to work well. I was hitting a build failure >>>> that >>>> I could workaround by using an interactive shell. No idea if it's a >>>> pbuilder >>>> problem or what. That would need a little investigation. >>>> >>>> For Firefox, I didn't look much at the PIE issue. I just saw that it fails >>>> on a >>>> simple configure test when enabled, at the linker stage. With pie disabled, >>>> everything went well. >>> >>> That sounds great. Did you put the packages somewhere? I don't think we'll >>> run into any extra issues with Icedove but it might be worth checking >>> this out before the current ESR versions go EOL. >> >> Packages are at https://people.debian.org/~pochu/lts/gcc/ >> >> gcc-mozilla is the one from [1], but putting it here for convenience (you >> can't >> dget from launchpad). Let me know if it works for you or if you have any >> issues. > > I checked with current icedove and it builds a well when disabling > PIE. So with your proposed changed (disabling gfdl, updating to the > latest 4.8 version) we should be good. Are you going to look into this?
Yes, I'll take care of that. Cheers, Emilio
