Bug#533796: texlive-bin: non-standard gcc/g++ used for build (gcc-4.2)

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

+ Hilmar Preusse (Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:37:48 +0200):

> Dear Adeodato,

Hello,

> On 20.06.09 Matthias Klose (doko@cs.tu-berlin.de) wrote:
> > This package builds with a non standard compiler version; please
> > check if this package can be built with the default version of
> > gcc/g++.

> > Please keep this report open until the package uses the default
> > compiler version for the package build.

> We got #533796, cause we build texlive-bin on armel using gcc 4.2
> instead of 4.3. This was once done cause of a bug in gcc 4.3 (see
> #483939). Do you know if the problem is solved in recent gcc
> versions? Also could you drop us a note if the mentioned bug was
> reported to the DBTS and which # it is?

Sorry, I don't know. I'm CCing one of the armel porters, in case he's
aware what bug was causing texlive-bin to FTBFS on that architecture
back in the day.

Cheers,

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