Subject: Re: Compilter workarounds in packages
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/30/2001 13:53:40
On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 03:43:46AM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
  | On Sat, 29 Dec 2001, David Brownlee wrote:
  | > 	I've done that for a couple of other packages where the build
  | > 	system was too baroque to handle, but for libvorbis I only want to
  | > 	drop optimisation for that one file. I'm recording the fact its
  | > 	been worked around in HACKS, but maybe we should have another
  | > 	file listing hints on the best way to handle things like this?
  | 
  | Xref HACKS from Packages.txt ?

Note that there's also a problem noted on the vorbis home page about
using egcs 1.1.2 (gcc 2.91) because it generates bad .ogg files.
I've been meaning to put a check in the package's makefile for a
while.

Luke.