[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#562010: cynthiune.app: FTBFS on amd64 and kfreebsd-amd64: ICE

[Cyril Brulebois]

Yavor Doganov <yavor at gnu.org> (23/12/2009):
> Don't bother, please -- I managed to reproduce the ICE on fencepost
> with a manually built GCC 4.4.2.  Thanks for your efforts.

Okay. And you're welcome, again. ;)

> Now, what are the options to deal with this FTBFS until the GCC bug
> is fixed?
> 
> 1) Compile with -O0 on amd64/kfreebsd-amd64.  This would be a Debian
> Policy violation; I'm not sure if it is allowed in cases like this.

I would do that. Working around compiler bugs until they're fixed is
AFAICT very OK. Just make sure it's properly documented in
e.g. changelog and debian/rules, so that arch-specific stuff can be
cleaned up afterwards without having to wonder why that was put into
place in the first place. Mentioning the compiler bug number would be
nice, for example.

> 2) Build-depend on gobjc-4.3 on these architectures and compile the
> package with that version (assuming, of course, that the ICE doesn't
> happen with 4.3).  This is probably slightly clumsy, and would
> prevent the eventual removal of gcc-4.3 in the foreseeable future.

You already have the bottom line: not really a solution (unless agreed
with the release team/compiler folks that a whole bunch of packages
need such a different version, for whatever reasons).

Mraw,
KiBi.