Bug#672030: Fwd: Re: Cannot build beast with gcc 4.7

[Reinhard Tartler]

Hi Tim,

I wonder if there is any news on this bug on your side?

The situation in Debian is that the Release team has the 'beast'
package on its removal list and requests a solution for this problem
/before/ next Friday (Oct 26). If we do not manage to upload some fix
for compilation with gcc 4.7, the package will not be part of the next
stable release, i.e. Debian/wheezy.

Sorry if this mail seems a bit harsh. I hope you understand that we,
the package maintainers of beast in Debian, experience quite some
pressure because of the upcoming release. In any case, thanks for your
work on beast!

Cheers,
Reinhard.

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Giovanni Mascellani <gio at debian.org> wrote:
> I noticed upstream developers of this bug. Answer follows. They will be
> looking into it.
>
> Giovanni.
>
> -------- Messaggio originale --------
> Oggetto: Re: Cannot build beast with gcc 4.7
> Data: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 12:49:13 +0200
> Mittente: > A: Giovanni Mascellani <gio at debian.org>
>
> On 04.09.2012 14:36, Giovanni Mascellani wrote:
>> Hi.
>
> Hi Giovanni, thanks for the report, we will be looking into it.
> Stefan already reported he could reproduce your problem.
> I don't have a distribution with gcc-4.7 yet, so can only look into this
> later.
>
>>
>> I'm a Debian Developer and I'm triaging a bug reported against the beast
>> package in Debian:
>>
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=672030
>>
>> Beast doesn't compile with gcc 4.7, but it does with 4.6. The same
>> behavior happens both for the Debian package and the pristine tarball
>> distributed on your website.
>>
>> Let aside a few missing header files (check the patch at [1]), the
>> problem is that a program invoked during compilation (lt-bseprocidl)
>> segfaults. I tried to inspect the problem, and it appears that it is
>> connected with the Gobject library, since it happens during the
>> initialization of the Gobject structures related with class
>> BseStandardOsc. Unfortunately, I'm not very into the glib, so I cannot
>> give much more details.
>>
>>  [1] http://goo.gl/1eiI3
>>
>> Did you already try to compile beast with gcc 4.7? Do you have any plans
>> of supporting it?
>>
>> In case this can be helpful for you, my box runs Debian sid on an amd64
>> processor.
>>
>> Thanks, Giovanni.
>
>
> --
> Yours sincerely,
> Tim Janik
>
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-- 
regards,
    Reinhard