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Re: (re)compiling debian packages with ccc



It was my (perhaps ignorant?) understanding that GCC3.2 closed the gap (at
least made the gap a lot smaller) between GCC and CCC.  Am I wrong?  (I have
yet to test this, however, as I don't have GCC3.2 working on my alpha.)

Ted
----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Watson" <cjwatson@debian.org>
To: <debian-alpha@lists.debian.org>; <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 11:54 AM
Subject: Re: (re)compiling debian packages with ccc


> On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:11:31AM -0600, Bob McElrath wrote:
> > Since everyone immediately gravitated to legal issues, I repost the
> > technical piece.  ;)
> >
> > I have joined the libtool mailing list and will add ccc as a recognized
> > compiler to libtool.  Are there other issues with
> >     apt-get source ... dpkg-buildpackage
> > that anyone knows of?  (aside from ccc failing to compile some files)
>
> You'll find that a lot of Debian source packages set CFLAGS themselves,
> and may use gcc-specific flags. It's not obvious whether it's a bug that
> they don't honour a user-set CFLAGS: I can see arguments on both sides
> (autobuild consistency versus user overrides). Since as far as I know we
> don't have any policy on this, you may well find yourself having to
> change some debian/rules files.
>
> --
> Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
>
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