Re: [Gimp-developer] [PATCH] configure: add runtime test for gcc-7.2 bug

2018-01-08 Thread Tobias Ellinghaus
Am Montag, 8. Januar 2018, 01:18:23 CET schrieb Kir Kolyshkin: [GIMP compiled with GCC 7.2 has/had a problem with converting 16bit images] > - make a warning a fatal error as we know the resulting binary is buggy That's a terrible idea. There are many people who don't care at all about 16bit

[Gimp-developer] [PATCH] configure: add runtime test for gcc-7.2 bug

2018-01-08 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Commit 9b4382614be ("Bug 787222 - Can't convert from 16 bit to 16 bit floating point.") introduced a GCC version check to configure, and a warning that GCC 7.2.0 should not be used. While earlier release of GCC 7.2 had this bug, it was fixed in 7.2 branch later. It looks like Ubuntu and Debian