Control: tags -1 fixed-upstream

On 2015-02-08 15:34 +0100, Thomas Dickey wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 02:03:54PM +0100, Helmut Grohne wrote:
>> Source: ncurses
>> Version: 5.9+20140913-1
>> Severity: important
>> User: helm...@debian.org
>> Usertags: rebootstrap
>> 
>> I noticed that ncurses FTBFS with gcc-5. Please find a failing log
>> attached. The file that fails compilation is generated using shell and
>> awk from the output of the preprocessor. The cpp included in gcc-5 can
>> split lines which may cause confusion to the source generator. See
>> #777374 for a similar bug. Most likely, ncurses relies on UB in gcc and
>> thus this is a bug in ncurses indeed.
>
> You appear to be discussing a bug in gcc for which I made a workaround
> in December:
>
>       http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html#index-t20141206

I can confirm that the 20150131 snapshot builds fine with gcc-5, so this
problem will be solved when we move to a newer ncurses patchlevel in
Debian.

> (the most recent version of gcc in Debian/testing still appears to be 4.9)

Yes, gcc-5 is currently only in experimental.

Cheers,
       Sven


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