SuSE 11.0 gcc/g++ 4.3

[Peter C. Ndikuwera]

Donn,

Stop spreading FUD. There's a reason why it's called a BETA. It's not
finished software.

Post a bug report on opensuse.org (I think it's
http://bugs.opensuse.org) and they'll fix it.

On 26/04/2008, David C. Manuelda <stormbyte at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 26 April 2008 20:18:06 Gregory Meyer, CPA wrote:
>  > 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)
>
>
> What I tried to tell you is: maybe amarok issues are solved for gcc 4.3, *BUT*
>  there are still a lot of packages (libraries and more) that does not compile
>  with 4.3. So for this reason I told you not to upgrade yet :)
>
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