Depend on gcc-4.8 and override CC=cc-4.8 on powerpc in debian/rules. Ondřej Surý
On 16. 5. 2013, at 5:20, Shachar Shemesh <shac...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a package[1] that will not transition to testing due to failed > compilation on powerpc. The problem is that the actual package requires a > fairly complete C++11 support in order to compile. I have tried to signify > this by adding "Build-Depends: gcc (>= 4:4.7)" to the dependencies. > > On PowerPC, despite gcc version 4.7 (and, indeed, 4.8) being available, the > "gcc" package is for version 4.6.4. This means that without some platform > specific tricks in the package (as I don't have a PowerPC platform, these > tricks are hard to know), the package fails dependencies. Even if that were > not the case, the package would fail to build, as gcc points to gcc-4.6.4. > > Is there some better way to cause the system to use a C++11 capable compiler? > > Shachar > > P.S. > I no longer have a PowerPC platform to test with, and qemu-user isn't > emulating deep enough for fakeroot-ng to work under (and is extremely buggy > for PowerPC emulation anyways). As such, the best I can tell at the moment is > that under ppc, when specifying gcc-4.8 compiler, the code compiles. > > 1 - http://packages.qa.debian.org/f/fakeroot-ng.html
