Re: install-info vs. perl 5.8

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos@baldric.uwo.ca>]

> 
> > For those arches like i386, ia64 and ppc which
> > are known to be okay we can set the Build-Depends to gcc (>= 3.2).
> 
> There is a configure time test for glibc that *Requires* gcc 3.2
> Compiling with less than that is not an option.  That's why we can't
> produce ultrasparc binaries for now.
> 
> We'll just have to run tests for other arch's.  You've consistantly
> mention sendmail as a good test, so I'm sure there's a few other
> complicated ones (apache comes to mind) that could probably be used to
> sort out the compat issues.
> 

Does glibc 2.2.93 build and pass make check under gcc-3.0/1 for all of
our arches?

I shall go and try compile 2.2.93 with gcc-3.0 and 3.1 on hppa. I know
for sure that gcc-3.2 doesn't compile glibc 2.2.93 on hppa (unless I
disable static, but we don't pass make check).

c.