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

[Giovanni Mascellani]

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: Tim Janik <tim.janik at googlemail.com>
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.


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Yours sincerely,
Tim Janik

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