[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#777971: Please help porting Core Wrapper to gcc 5.0 (Was: Help with libtool needed (Was: Bug#777971: librcsb-core-wrapper: ftbfs with GCC-5))

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

as you might know the Core Wrapper library was packaged for Debian
(initially by Laszlo Kajan for the Debian Med team).  Debian is
migrating to gcc-5 and it seems there are some hard to reproduce
problems with libtool (see the full bug log here
https://bugs.debian.org/777971) and a shell script (etc/platform.sh)
that explicitly excludes gcc-5.  Do you plan any upgrade of the library
to anable gcc-5 builds?

BTW, Debian will also sooner or later switch to Python 3 completely
so some Python 3 support would be required as well.

Kind regards and thanks for providing Core Wrapper as free software

    Andreas.

On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 11:05:54AM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> The GCC5 build log says:
> 
> >Warning: this seems to be an unsupported operating system.
> 
> Very suspicious! (I wish upstream build system stopped here, instead of
> trying to foolishly trying to build stuff anyway...)
> 
> And in etc/platform.sh there's this:
> 
> >   Linux)
> >#     Check if it is GCC version 4.x
> >     gcc_ver=`gcc --version | grep -e " 4\."`
> >     if [[ -z $gcc_ver ]]
> >     then
> >#       It is not GCC version 4.x. Check if it is GCC version 3.x
> >       gcc_ver=`gcc --version | grep -e " 3\."`
> >       if [[ -z $gcc_ver ]]
> >       then
> >#       It is not GCC version 3.x. Check if it is GCC version 2.x
> >         gcc_ver=`gcc --version | grep -e "2\."`
> >         if [[ -z $gcc_ver ]]
> >         then
> >#           It is not GCC version 2.x either. Production can not be compiled.
> >           sysid="unknown"
> >         else
> >#           It is GCC version 2.x
> >           sysid="gnu2"
> >         fi
> >       else
> >#         It is GCC version 3.x
> >         sysid="gnu3"
> >       fi
> >     else
> >#         It is GCC version 4.x
> >         sysid="gnu4"
> >     fi
> >   ;;
> 
> which doesn't take existence of GCC 5 (or later versions) into account.
> 
> -- 
> Jakub Wilk
> 
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