On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:54:29PM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 03:56:11PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > Ubuntu recently switched to GCC 4.5, and we quickly found that Perl > > failed to build with it. > > > Illegal declaration of subroutine main::__INT16_C at > > /build/buildd/perl-5.10.1/debian/tmp/usr/lib/perl/5.10/_h2ph_pre.ph line > > 162. > > Compilation failed in require at > > /build/buildd/perl-5.10.1/debian/tmp/usr/lib/perl/5.10/asm/termios.ph line > > 1. > > > I hunted around a bit and tracked down > > http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commit/8d66b3f930dc6d88b524d103e304308ae73a46e7, > > which fixes this problem (although the commit message is uninformative). > > Attached please find a patch to incorporate this. > > Thanks! I don't see a reason for pushing this into squeeze (seems like an > unnecessary risk to me), but I'll certainly add it to the 5.12 packages > in experimental. > > If you (or anybody else) think it should go in squeeze too, please let > me know.
As far as I'm concerned, just 5.12 would be fine (indeed, it's not in the upstream maint-5.12 branch, only in blead). I mostly just wanted to ensure that folks working on GCC 4.5 in Debian didn't have to replicate my search for a fix. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
