On Fri, May 09, 2014 at 02:45:32PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Sun, May 04, 2014 at 08:52:24AM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> > This is fixed upstream for 5.20, which we're targetting for jessie > > (releasing in the next month or so), so I think we don't need to do any > > particular work in advance of that. > > On debian-release [1], Matthias writes that > > If anything goes well, and a large amount of build failures are fixed, > I plan to make GCC 4.9 the default for the C/C++/ObjC/Obj-C++ frontends > at the end of May, beginning of June. > > I doubt we can get Perl 5.20 in sid by that time, so I suppose we need > to do something about 5.18 too. The options I see are > > - explicitly use gcc-4.8 > - apply the patch by Marek Polacek that upstream rejected in favour of > -fwrapv (AIUI) > - backport the 5.20 -fwrapv changes in Configure > - force feed -fwrapv to ccflags Configure invocation in debian/config.debian > > The last one seems easiest. Whoops, yes. It looks like I misinterpreted the "RC before Jessie" remark, sorry about that. I agree that the last one sounds easiest and given the short duration it should be needed for, the best. I'm testing a fix for 5.18 now. Dominic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
