Re: OCaml 3.10.2 FTBFS on arm with gcc 4.3

[Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>]

Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 08:06:53PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
>>> http://experimental.debian.net/build.php?pkg=ocaml&arch=arm&ver=3.10.2-1,
>>> the main difference on the two builds are gcc-4.2 vs gcc-4.3.
>> Note that recently netwinder and non-netwinder arm machines did also
>> differ enough to FTBFS or not...
> 
> Hi look,
>   unfortunately the Cc to you was dropped quite early, but we have a bit
> more info now. See the thread at  [1].
> 
> Executive summary: we (Julien) tried to build on arm using gcc 4.2 (on
> agnesi.d.o IIRC) and it worked properly. So, our proposal is to choose
> among:
> 
> 1) go ahead with the current ocaml and manually do a binary upload of it
>    on arm using gcc 4.2 (pro: no source package upload needed, cons: non
>    naively buildable from source ocaml package on arm; the only
>    justification for that would be that arm support is transitional,
>    it's successor is armel, on which the build was fine)
> 
> 2) do another sourceful upload of ocaml with arch-specific build dep on
>    gcc 4.2 for arm, and some debian/rules magic to enforce building
>    against gcc 4.2 on arm only
> 
> What do you prefer/suggest?

I prefer a fixed gcc 4.3 to solution 2 and I would certainly not be
happy with option 1... I guess going for solution 2 is the best option
to proceed now.

Cheers

Luk