This one time, at band camp, Steve Langasek said: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 12:08:53PM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: > > I am maintaining a package that fails to build on alpha, hppa, and > > s390. It appears that the problem is that those architectures use > > gcc/g++-3.0, rather than 2.95, as the default compiler. The source > > would need to be modified (not hugely, perhaps) to compile with > > gcc/g++-3.0. > > The default compiler on alpha is still gcc 2.95, to the best of my > knowledge. If the autobuilders are using 3.x, this is not reflected > in the default package layout for the architecture.
This was, admittedly, a guess, as I have no access to the machines. The
log files all show the same errors, and as I know hppa uses gcc-3.0, I
assumed the others did as well.
> There is another issue, which is that g++ 2.95 is fairly *broken* on
> alphas, and you need to disable optimization by compiling with -O0 to
> get most complex C++ code to compile on that arch. For further
> information on enabling compile options on an arch-dependent basis,
> see the rules file for unixodbc, for example.
I didn't know you could do this, but that's very helpful. I will look
into this, if the migration is expected to take some time.
> I believe the g++ migration is now the only thing we're waiting on for
> KDE3.
That was my understanding as well. Do you know the timeframe that this
is expected to take?
> Various people have stated an intention to make gcc 3.x (for x >= 2)
> the default compiler for sarge. If upstream already has a new version
> of the package that works with g++ 3.x and KDE3, I wouldn't recommend
> that you spend a lot of time trying to get your current version of the
> package to work with gcc 3.x -- especially since, on alpha at least,
> you *can't* compile Qt-based packages using g++ 3.x.
Hmmm . . . that's problematic. Do you know if Qt3 and gcc-3.0 will play
nicely on alpha? I have no experience with architectures other than
i386. Google, here I come (^8.
> Steve Langasek
> postmodern programmer
Thanks,
Steve
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