[Debian GNUstep maintainers] help wanted with a GNUstep rebuild using GCC-4.7

[Matthias Klose]

On 05.04.2012 22:55, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> Matthias Klose wrote:
>> 4.6 is now the default on all architectures.
> 
> OK, thanks.
> 
>>> I'll think about the best way to fix this.  Ideas welcome.
>>
>> maybe just hardcode 4.7 for the test rebuild?
> 
> Sure, I was talking about the future transition(s).
> 
> From the core GNUstep packages, only gnustep-base fails to build with
> gcc-4.7.  I managed to build it successfully with patches taken from
> upstream SVN.  With the GNUstep core libraries built (with 4.7) and
> installed, the following packages FTBFS:

[thanks for filing these]

4.7 will become the default on amd64, i386, hurd-i386 this weekend. The other
architectures will stay with 4.6. So you have some options:

 - build using the default GCC (imo preferred). you'll end up
   with libobjc4 on i386/amd64 and libobjc3 on the other archs.
   if another port decides to default to 4.7, then it would be
   just a series of binNMUs.

 - either hard-code 4.6 or 4.7.

Matthias