Re: Problem compiling kdebase...

[Gary Greene <greeneg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 12 May 2008 1:39:55 am Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 12.05.08 09:25:40, edg72@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > Thanks, I upgraded to gcc 4.2.3 and now kdebase compiles. I checked the
> > GNU site and found out that GCC 4.2 was released just about a year ago.
> > Requiring GCC 4.2 or higher for KDE 4.1 thus might be a bit too much. For
> > example, Gentoo still installs GCC 4.1.2 by default since 4.2.3 is not
> > declared stable for most architectures. I have no clue about other
> > distributions though...
>
> AFAIK KDE4 still requires gcc 3.3 as minimum version. Eventually (don't
> have a way to test) that version might work quite well and just that
> specific 4.1 version is broken and thus can't be used. So you always
> have an option of downgrading and if kde4 doesn't build with gcc 3.3
> then you may file bugreports.
>
> Andreas

Also, be wary of specific branch revisions of the 4.1 tree. I've found that 
the snapshots of GCC from 20070110 until 20070305 to have issues with 
templating and visibility support.

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Gary L. Greene, Jr.
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