Re: Build-Conficts: gcc-3.3, and varargs
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 06:02:56PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 05:58:53PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 08:39:52PM -0400, 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?
>
> > Invoke make with CC=gcc-3.2.
>
> > If you build-conflict with gcc-3.3, I highly doubt that the autobuilders
> > will do what you want -- you may even leave the autobuilders in a
> > completely broken state for any packages which follow you.
>
> ... but also please note that there has discussion of removing gcc-3.2
> from the archive before sarge's release, so there's no guarantee this
> will even fix your problem.
And that this is also just hiding the problem, which is that the code uses
an ancient interface which is no longer supported. Better to focus on
moving it to stdarg.h.
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- mdz
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