Hi,

Am Freitag, den 14.03.2008, 12:54 -0400 schrieb Matthew Danish:
> gtk2hs packages currently do not have up-to-date versions in unstable
> for amd64 because of a very small issue: they attempt to force the
> usage of gcc-4.1 which will not work with GHC 6.8 on amd64.  I have
> successfully modified the rules file to use gcc-4.2 or 4.3 instead,
> and compiled my own packages.  I have not detected any ill effects
> while developing with these gtk2hs packages.
> 
> There is a comment to the effect that "split-objs" doesn't work on
> gcc-4.2 -- I've been assured that comment is now out of date.
> 
> I propose a minor change:
> 
> - # Do not use gcc-4.2 until it works:
> - # Use gcc-4.1 until ghc/split-obj/gcc-4.2 work togehter
> - configure_flags += --with-hcflags="-O -pgmc gcc-4.1"
> + configure_flags += --with-hcflags="-O -pgmc gcc-4.2"
> 
> or gcc-4.3.
> 
> I would prefer not to NMU this if either of you have the time to make
> a proper upload.  However, if not, I will probably go ahead and do so
> next week.
> 
> This simple change would fix two high priority bugs: #463290, #461422.

From my side, please go ahead. Despite being listed in Uploaders: I
don’t consider myself the maintainer, so I’d also just do an NMU.

I don’t think that Liyang HU would object, as he did not in the past.

Greetings,
Joachm

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