Bug#455125: FTBFS with GCC 4.3: missing #includes
Mike Hommey
mh at glandium.org
Sat Dec 15 10:40:48 UTC 2007
block 455125 by 456270
thanks
On Sat, Dec 08, 2007 at 11:21:12PM -0700, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> Package: webkit
> Version: 0~svn27674-1
> Usertags: ftbfs-gcc-4.3
>
> Your package fails to build with GCC 4.3. Version 4.3 has not been
> released yet but I'm building with a snapshot in order to find errors
> and give people an advance warning. In GCC 4.3, the C++ header
> dependencies have been cleaned up. The advantage of this is that
> programs will compile faster. The downside is that you actually
> need to directly #include everything you use (but you really should
> do this anyway, otherwise your program won't work with any compiler
> other than GCC). There's some more information about this at
> http://www.cyrius.com/journal/2007/05/10#gcc-4.3-include
>
> You can reproduce this problem with gcc-snapshot from unstable. Note
> that Red Hat, Novell and Ubuntu have done some work getting packages
> to build with GCC 4.3 so there might be patches floating around
> somewhere. I suggest you talk to your upstream.
I fixed 2 missing includes in the WebKit code, but couldn't go further
because of bug #456270. These fixes will remain on the tip of my local
branch until gcc-snapshot is fixed.
Mike
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