Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (761 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, April 10, 2012 10:58:27 Dominique Leuenberger a.k.a DimStar 
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> as it has become custom to send out regular updates (be it only to
> keep people aware of the topic), here another round for the "GCC 4.7
> as default in Factory" - Update:
>
> Not much has happened in the last week. A critical component failing
> to build with Gcc 4.7 is currently libzypp, which, understandably,
> blocks the switch (well, I think it could always be decided to switch
> to 4.7, but keep zypp build with 4.6?)
>
> Anyway, let's not paint it too dark: libzypp folks are helpful and
> looked into the matter. The first result was a regression in gcc which
> had been identified for libzypp.
>
> There are currently 22 packages failing in my branch
> (home:dimstar:gcc47): libzypp, which causes at least PackageKit to fail
> as a result. 

For libzypp and friends: It's not clear whether we have a bug in libzypp or 
a bug in GCC, might be that the old compiler accepts invalid code...

We can always BuildRequire gcc46 and build using CXX="g++-46" etc, so this 
is no show stopper.

Michael spend already a couple of days trying to figure out how to 
workaround the bug,

Andreas
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