Re: Build-Conficts: gcc-3.3, and varargs

[Matt Brubeck <mbrubeck@cs.hmc.edu>]

Justin Pryzby wrote:

> I have a package (x11iraf) which conflicts with gcc-3.3.  For the whole
> story see below..
>
> gcc includes /usr/bin/gcc which is pretty much a necessity, I think.
> I need xmkmf to work too.  For now I have Build-Depends: gcc-3.2, but
> what can I do to force it to actually compile with that, instead of
> gcc-3.3?

If the package's build system uses $(CC) as the compiler, then you can
set CC="gcc-3.2" in debian/rules.  If "gcc" is hard-coded in the
upstream makefile, then I would patch it to use $(CC) instead.