gcc-4.1 status in unstable
gcc-4.1 4.1.1-19 in unstable now looks like not showing build time
regressions compared to 4.1.1-13 in testing, validated on amd64.
Lucas Nussbaum volunteered to build testing from 2006-10-24 with -13
and -17, the results can be found at [1]. The failures are detailed
below and supposed to be fixed in either -19 by reverting three
upstream changes, or in new packages uploaded to unstable. I would
like to ask porters to do a rebuild with -19 on their architecture,
where that seems to be possible within a recent time.
An outstanding issue is PR29289 [2], supposed to be a bug in older 4.1
versions with #pragma interface. The most prominent user of #pragma
interface is apt, which alaready was rebuilt using the GCC in
unstable, so rebuilds of all packages depending on a libapt* should
work around this incompatibility. I didn't check the archive for
other #pragma interface uses, at least the archive rebuild didn't show
any additional failures.
Compared to -13, -19 improves on many architectures:
- arm: fixing FTBFS
- alpha: fixing FTBFS (linux kernel)
- m68k: make 4.1 usable on this architecture
- mips/mipsel: fixed exception handling bugs
- ia64: Fix glibc build failure
In summary the -19 package did see improvement with about 100
regressions fixed upstream compared to the -13 in testing. I'm not
(yet) proposing inclusion of -19 in testing, but calling for testing
on other architectures than amd64.
Matthias
[1] http://tiber.tauware.de/~lucas/ftbfs/20061024/
[2] http://gcc.gnu.org/PR29289
E3: avifile 1:0.7.44.20051021-2.2 : Different result: 1:OK 2:Failed
- reverted upstream change in gcc, workaround for avifile
should be tested (see patch).
E3: drscheme 1:352-6 : Different result: 1:OK 2:Failed
- unrelated failure in install target
E3: kbibtex 0.1.5-1 : Different result: 1:OK 2:Failed
- submitted bug report with patch, fixed in unstable
E3: kdelibs 4:3.5.5a-1 : Different result: 1:OK 2:Failed
- unrelated, builds in unstable
E3: libio-all-perl 0.33-3 : Different result: 1:OK 2:Failed
- unrelated, builds ok in unstable
E3: openoffice.org 2.0.4~rc3-1 : Different result: 1:OK 2:Failed
- fixed in unstable
E3: retchmail 1:1.0-1 : Different result: 1:OK 2:Failed
- same as wvstreams, just needs wvstreams fix
E3: wvdial 1.56-1 : Different result: 1:OK 2:Failed
- same as wvstreams, just needs wvstreams fix
E3: wvstreams 4.2.2-2.2 : Different result: 1:OK 2:Failed
- reverted upstream change in gcc
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