On 05-Mar-25 14:35, Ben Burton wrote: > I took a look at this and I'm uncomfortable with the patch that you've > suggested. > > The issue here is that I want to ensure that the installed libgcj-dev > matches the version of gcj that is used. This was in fact the reason > for the latest libreadline-java upload. > > The current build-depends are (gcj-3.3 && libgcj4-dev), which ensures a > version match. > > The suggested replacement of (gcj && (libgcj4-dev || libgcj-dev)) does > not ensure a version match. If gcj defaults to gcj-3.4, then you could > have gcj-3.4 but libgcj4-dev (not libgcj5-dev which matches gcj-3.4). > > Moreover, both libgcj4-dev and libgcj5-dev provide libgcj-dev. This > means that you could have gcj-3.3 (the default gcj on i386) combined > with libgcj5-dev (provides libgcj-dev), which again gives mismatched > versions. > > If you have suggestions for working around these problems, I'd love to > hear them. In the meantime, I'd prefer not to apply the given patch > because of the problems above.
Hello, thank you for your detailed reply. I see your point and I have no perfect solution for this at the moment. Nonetheless, I still think that it is a bad idea to make packages explicitly depend on a specific version of gcc. I am working on a port to ppc64 and there is no gcc-3.3 for this architecture, only gcc-3.4 and gcc-4.0. A large part of the archive compiled without changes with a different default gcc. Only very few packages depend on a specific version of gcc. For C and C++ this is easy because the build-essential packages define a default gcc and g++ environment. It is certainly ugly to explicitly call 'gcj-3.3' instead of 'gcj' in the Makefiles. As a solution, I would suggest to use 'gcj' everywhere, but to introduce a configure check which tests if 'gcj' and the installed version of 'libgcj-dev' match, i.e. gcj==gcj-3.3/libgcj4-dev, gcj==gcj-3.4/libgcj5-dev and gcj==gcj-4.0/libgcj6-dev. I do not have a patch for this yet, but it should not be too difficult to write one. Regards Andreas Jochens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
