SuSE 11.0 gcc/g++ 4.3

[Gregory Meyer, CPA]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 1:28 PM, David C. Manuelda <stormbyte at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Saturday 26 April 2008 19:15:29 Donn Washburn wrote:
> > David C. Manuelda wrote:
> > > On Saturday 26 April 2008 18:43:59 Donn Washburn wrote:
> > >> Hey Group;
> > >>
> > >> It seems SuSE 11.0 sent out it's normally broken Amarok version.
> > >> To add to that, they are now only using gstreamer-yauap. Problem with
> it
> > >> is that it is missing a lib.la.  So, amarok engine shows only "no
> > >> engine"
> > >>
> > >> To beat the problem I was going to compile from source.  First taglibs
> > >> and xine-lib and then Amarok old cvs version and a 04/26/08 version.
> > >> Neither will compile due to gcc 4.3 and g++ 4.3.  gcc 4.2 worked.
> > >>
> > >> Has anyone gotten this to work?  I may be still missing a dependence.
> > >
> > > Then, you should look in google for patches for gcc 4.3 :) I think you
> > > will find several that you could apply and test, or wait upstream to
> > > repair that lacks of includes which makes them fail to compile against
> > > 4.3
> > > _______________________________________________
> >
> > Thanks David;
> >
> > I will try to find if there is some related info on the 4.3 issue
> > The errors came from the G++ and backwards files.h
>
> The full explanation of the problem:
>
> I do NOT recommend you use gcc 4.3 nowadays if you want to have MOST of
> packages compiled. The reason: (briefly): gcc team has done a cleanup in
> most
> of the standard include files, and thus, a file (or symbol) which got
> included including another C library file, is no longer included.
>
> This requires an extra effort for developers team of each package to be
> solved, or a user submitting patches (I've done several).
>
> For this reason, I do not recommend you to switch to gcc 4.3 yet...
>
>
I thought that all the issues with gcc 4.3 were fixed in the 1.4.9.1 release
(except for something in the helix engine).  I was successfully able to
compile it on Arch Testing (1.4.9 didn't compile, but 1.4.9.1 did)
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