[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#505956: Bug#505956: FTBFS with GCC 4.4: wants gcc <=

[Michael Meskes]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 07:30:11PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> Your package fails to build with the upcoming GCC 4.4.  Version 4.4
> has not been released yet but I'm building with a snapshot in order
> to find errors and give people an advance warning.

Could you please give us some information about how you set up your system to use gcc 4.4?

> You can reproduce this problem with gcc-snapshot from unstable.

Well so far I couldn't. 

> > ./configure \
> > 	    --with-linux="/usr" \
> > 	    --disable-kmods \
> > 	    --with-gcc=/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 \
> > 	    --with-g++=/usr/bin/g++-4.2
> > Checking for environment: Determined build machine: linux.amd64, target machine: linux.amd64, OK.
> > Checking for kBuild: found, OK.
> > Checking for gcc: 
> >   ** gcc version 4.4.0 found, expected gcc 3.x with x>1 or gcc 4.x with 0<x<4!

As you can see above configure is told to use /usr/bin/gcc-4.2 as gcc.

Which should be fine. In my test with setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH and PATH
according to README.Debian, configure correctly used gcc-4.2.

Michael
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