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Date:      Fri, 15 Dec 2006 18:12:00 -0500
From:      "Michael Johnson" <ahze@ahze.net>
To:        "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        multimedia@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [ports-i386@FreeBSD.org: gstreamer-ffmpeg80-0.8.7_4 failed on i386 7]
Message-ID:  <b2203fed0612151512t46e93d40s1e88d42626063837@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20061215230111.GH67786@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20061215230111.GH67786@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On 12/15/06, 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
>
>   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
>

We're going to remove all the gstreamer*80 ports in the coming year,
so I just assume mark gstreamer*80 as broken with gcc4.x .

Michael



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