is it a bug that glibc won't build with gcc4?

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at mindspring.com
Thu Dec 2 19:18:37 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>
>   given that FC3 ships with a preview gcc4, should it be considered a
> bug that glibc-2.3.3 can't be configured with that compiler?  the
> relevant excerpt from glibc-2.3.3/configure:
>
>  ac_prog_version=`$CC -v 2>&1 | sed -n 's/^.*version
> \([egcygnustpi-]*[0-9.]*\).*$/\1/p'`
>   case $ac_prog_version in
>     '') ac_prog_version="v. ?.??, bad"; ac_verc_fail=yes;;
>     3.[2-9]*)
>        ac_prog_version="$ac_prog_version, ok"; ac_verc_fail=no;;
>     *) ac_prog_version="$ac_prog_version, bad"; ac_verc_fail=yes;;
>
>   esac
>
>
> in short, if it ain't 3.2.x -> 3.9.x, glibc configure fails.  bug?
> feature?  safeguard?

never mind, just checked and it's been fixed in glibc CVS.

rday




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