Re: [Gimp-developer] [PATCH] configure: add runtime test for gcc-7.2 bug

2018-01-08 Thread Tobias Ellinghaus
Am Montag, 8. Januar 2018, 01:18:23 CET schrieb Kir Kolyshkin: [GIMP compiled with GCC 7.2 has/had a problem with converting 16bit images] > - make a warning a fatal error as we know the resulting binary is buggy That's a terrible idea. There are many people who don't care at all about 16bit i

[Gimp-developer] [PATCH] configure: add runtime test for gcc-7.2 bug

2018-01-08 Thread Kir Kolyshkin
Commit 9b4382614be ("Bug 787222 - Can't convert from 16 bit to 16 bit floating point.") introduced a GCC version check to configure, and a warning that GCC 7.2.0 should not be used. While earlier release of GCC 7.2 had this bug, it was fixed in 7.2 branch later. It looks like Ubuntu and Debian too