working around a gcc-4.4 bug
Hi!
There's a bug in gcc-4.4 that causes an ICE on powerpc on a number of
packages, including "crawl" which I just received a report about FTBFSing on
backports. This particular ICE can be avoided by building with no
optimization.
Architectures other than powerpc, and gcc-4.5 or 4.6 work well.
What should I do? Does this require a sourceful upload that checks the
compiler's version and forces noopt on powerpc? Or is there a better way?
(I'm neither the maintainer nor a DD, just a member of the upstream team who
sometimes prepares packages ready for upload since the maintainer is quite
busy these days.)
A sourceful upload is not out of question -- I can cut an upstream point
release with a bunch of bugfixes so they can get in before Ubuntu's import
freeze on June 16. I just wonder what's the least intrusive way.
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