Bug#634821: libgcc1: filename change breaks old gcc

2011-08-03 Thread Andy Chittenden
gcc-4.3 is no longer installable: # apt-get install gcc-4.3 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution

Bug#634821: libgcc1: filename change breaks old gcc

2011-08-03 Thread Matthias Klose
tag 634821 + wontfix thanks both gcc-4.2 and gcc-4.3 are removed from unstable. If you want to make them work, you'll have to backport the multiarch patches to these versions. the libgcc1 version in unstable explicitly breaks these gcc versions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#634821: libgcc1: filename change breaks old gcc

2011-07-30 Thread MERLIN Philippe
Hello, I am sorry , i think you must reopen the Bug , or give an solution , some debian packets by example like linux-headers-2.6.32-5-AMD64 want gcc-4.3 and so in SID the kernel linux 2.6.32-5 can't be used any time, when some driver or services must be updated and compiled whith dkms they

Bug#634821: libgcc1: filename change breaks old gcc

2011-07-20 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Package: libgcc1 Version: 4.6.0-12 Severity: important Justification: breaks related software X-Debbugs-Cc: Andrew Chittenden an...@bluearc.com Hi, As Andy noticed[*], moving libgcc_s.so.1 from /lib to /lib/$arch breaks versions of gcc from before that move. $ echo 'int main(void) { return 0;

Bug#634821: libgcc1: filename change breaks old gcc

2011-07-20 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: 2. Would it make sense to introduce a new package libgcc1-multiarch and make libgcc1 into a compatibility package that ships a symlink /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 - /lib/$arch/libgcc_s.so.1 for the sake of smooth partial upgrades? i.e., something like this? (Plus

Bug#634821: libgcc1: filename change breaks old gcc

2011-07-20 Thread Matthias Klose
On 07/20/2011 10:17 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Jonathan Nieder wrote: 2. Would it make sense to introduce a new package libgcc1-multiarch and make libgcc1 into a compatibility package that ships a symlink /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 - /lib/$arch/libgcc_s.so.1 for the sake of smooth

Bug#634821: libgcc1: filename change breaks old gcc

2011-07-20 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Matthias Klose wrote: libgcc2 and libgcc4 are missing. But I don't like it. Why stop at libgcc/libgomp, and not at libstdc++ and libgfortran? Are there symlinks under /usr/lib/gcc hard-coding the path to libstdc++ and libgfortran? For now, I'll add an unconditional break on gcc-4.1 and

Bug#634821: libgcc1: filename change breaks old gcc

2011-07-20 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: Are there symlinks under /usr/lib/gcc hard-coding the path to libstdc++ and libgfortran? Ah, found them. Yes, in libstdc++6-4.x-dev and gfortran-4.x packages (which presumably also need to be marked broken). Sorry for the noise. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#634821: libgcc1: filename change breaks old gcc

2011-07-20 Thread Andy Chittenden
By the way, Andy, could you give a quick reminder of what you are using gcc 4.2 and 4.3 to do? We have some old code that we need to maintain that won't compile with later versions of the compiler. -- Andy, BlueArc Engineering -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Bug#634821: libgcc1: filename change breaks old gcc

2011-07-20 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Jonathan Nieder wrote: 1. Is there any GCC command-line option that people can use to work around this kind of thing (e.g., to add a directory to the front of the search order)? Just for kicks (and in case there's a good place to document it): mkdir /usr/local/lib/gcc/4.3.5

Bug#634821: libgcc1: filename change breaks old gcc

2011-07-20 Thread Matthias Klose
On 07/20/2011 11:54 AM, Andy Chittenden wrote: By the way, Andy, could you give a quick reminder of what you are using gcc 4.2 and 4.3 to do? We have some old code that we need to maintain that won't compile with later versions of the compiler. IMO the better approach would be