KDE blacklist of Fedora Core's gcc 4
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at redhat.com
Tue Jun 14 13:12:11 UTC 2005
Hi
>>Well, gcc 4 was known to cause problems which is why it's not
>>supported by KDE. That's a simple fact, no "innocence" about it. If
>>you're an open source software developer with limited time the last
>>thing you want to do is spend hours debugging a bizarre bug only to
>>find out it's a compiler problem
>>
I agree completely with this. This shouldnt be taken up as people
playing the blaiming game. If GCC 4.0 release had critical errors
compiling KDE and if the issues are with the compiler its pretty
reasonable for KDE developers to blacklist this particular version.
Fedora version of GCC and KDE too has patches which fix these issues in
the packages provided with Fedora Core 4 and also in
cvs.fedora.redhat.com. Fedora core 4 being the first adopter to rebuild
all of its packages (afaik) of this new version of GCC has the
necessary patches again several packages which is bound to get upstream
sooner or later. In other words, just let it rest
regards
Rahul
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