Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 14:23:51 -0500 From: "Michael Johnson" <ahze@ahze.net> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [ports-i386@FreeBSD.org: jpeg-mmx-0.1.6 failed on i386 7] Message-ID: <b2203fed0612141123x1d7343fbya51fd8195ae1d0b3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20061214184728.GL94329@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20061214184728.GL94329@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On 12/14/06, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote: > Dear Maintainer, > > As you may know, in the near future FreeBSD 7.x will be switching from > the gcc 3.4 compiler to gcc 4.x. Unfortunately your port fails to > build with the new compiler; see the log below or the following url: > > http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-errorlogs/e.7.2006121307/ > > To ease the disruption to users and to avoid further work later on, > can you please work (with the upstream developers if necessary) on > fixing this error? > > In many cases it requires only simple code changes, and these may > already have been submitted to the developers by other projects > (thesedays many Linux distributions use gcc 4.1, so chances are they > have fixed the error already), or the patches may be found in their > package repositories. > > You should be able to reproduce it yourself simply by installing the > lang/gcc41 port and then setting the variables > This port should be retired, it's outlived its usefulness. Michael > CC=/usr/local/bin/gcc41 > CXX=/usr/local/bin/g++41 > > in your environment (Note: some ports do not respect these variables > currently, but this is another bug that should be fixed). > > Thanks, > Kris >
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