Re: Problems when building on woody (gcc-2.95 vs. gcc-3.0)

[Chris Halls <halls@debian.org>]

On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 10:29, Severin Greimel wrote:
> I tried to build 1.1.0+1.1.1rc3-1 on woody and ran across the following 
> problem:
> 
> When configured with "--with-system-db" and "--with-system-myspell", the build 
> fails due to undefined symbols when using backports of both libdb3 and 
> libmyspell3 that are built with gcc-2.95. It works if I use gcc-3.0 to build 
> the backports, but this seems undesirable to me on an otherwise pure 
> 2.95-system.
> 
> I eventually removed the "--with-system-db" and "--with-system-myspell" flags 
> to make it work. Maybe these should only be used when not building on woody, 
> also since libmyspell3 doesn't even exist on woody.

That sounds reasonable to me, since when backporting it helps to try and
reduce the number of extra dependencies (like I did with fontconfig and
libfreetype).

Did you need to make any more changes to the packages?

Thanks,
Chris