Bug#811986: qwtplot3d: FTBFS with GCC 6: symbol changes

[Adrian Bunk]

On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 05:24:06PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 19, 2016 08:13:48 PM you wrote:
> > Package: qwtplot3d
> > Version: 0.2.7+svn191-9
> > Severity: important
> > User: debian-gcc at lists.debian.org
> > Usertags: ftbfs-gcc-6 gcc-6-symbols
> > 
> > This package fails to build with GCC 6.  GCC 6 has not been released
> > yet, but it's expected that GCC 6 will become the default compiler for
> > stretch.
> > 
> > Note that only the first error is reported; there might be more.  You
> > can find a snapshot of GCC 6 in experimental.  To build with GCC 6,
> > you can set CC=gcc-6 CXX=g++-6 explicitly.
> > 
> > You may be able to find out more about this issue at
> > https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-6/changes.html
> > 
> > > sbuild (Debian sbuild) 0.67.0 (26 Dec 2015) on dl580gen9-02.hlinux
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > > dpkg-gensymbols: warning: some symbols or patterns disappeared in the
> > > symbols file: see diff output below dpkg-gensymbols: warning:
> > > debian/libqwtplot3d-qt4-0v5/DEBIAN/symbols doesn't match completely
> > > debian/libqwtplot3d-qt4-0v5.symbols ---
> > > debian/libqwtplot3d-qt4-0v5.symbols
> > > (libqwtplot3d-qt4-0v5_0.2.7+svn191-9_amd64) +++
> > > dpkg-gensymbolsFodDeO	2016-01-19 23:39:20.896195539 +0000
> ...
> 
> This is trivially fixable once GCC-6 is default, so removal from testing now 
> makes no sense.

Hi Scott,

can you upload a fix now that gcc 6 is the default?

> No idea how failing to build with a non-default compiler is 
> RC in any case.

It was made RC in preparation of changing the default compiler.

> Scott K

Thanks
Adrian

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