Subject: Re: gcc 2.95.3 issue
To: None <tech-pkg@NetBSD.org>
From: None <cube@cubidou.net>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/23/2003 12:06:49
On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 05:24:04AM -0500, Sean Davis wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 10:11:37AM +0100, cube@cubidou.net wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 10:58:08PM -0500, Sean Davis wrote:
> > > Okay, I know pkgsrc is/was frozen for "stability fixes for branching" or
> > > some such, but why does every package I try to build now require gcc 2.95.3?
> > > Shouldn't that particular change have been made on the branch?
> > > 
> > > pkgsrc's gcc 2.95.3nb<whatever> doesn't even build, it dies with two errors
> > > on loop.c (I can try it again and post the errors, but I don't see why it is
> > > now set to require 2.95.3 in -current/i386 when so much work was put into
> > > switching -current to 3.3.x.
> > > 
> > > Is there a workaround? I have 412 packages installed, probably half of which
> > > are out of date, and I can't update any of them because of this.
> > > 
> > > This is -current as of oct 26 (1.6ZE), with pkgsrc as of earlier today.
> > 
> > During a period of time, the version of gcc3 in -current was "3.3.2-nb1"
> > which produced the observed behaviour.  A fix for that was committed, but
> > was removed last week since the -current gcc verson is now ok WRT both gcc
> > and pkgsrc.
> > 
> > See mk/compiler.mk rev. 1.22.
> 
> dive@eros:/usr/pkgsrc/mk % ident compiler.mk
> compiler.mk:
>      $NetBSD: compiler.mk,v 1.23 2003/11/12 13:13:43 grant Exp $
> 
> The -current gcc version is not ok WRT pkgsrc, unless I need to update
> -current for the fix in compiler.mk to take effect.

As a said, rev. 1.*22* and the fix was removed.  Now please give us
the output of gcc -dumpversion, since I don't know if this is the bug
you're experiencing.

Quentin Garnier.