On 07/18/2018 02:09 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi, > > Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> (2018-05-04): >> The package fails to build in a test rebuild on at least amd64 with >> gcc-8/g++-8, but succeeds to build with gcc-7/g++-7. The >> severity of this report will be raised before the buster release. >> >> The full build log can be found at: >> http://aws-logs.debian.net/2018/05/01/gcc8/cdebconf_0.243_unstable_gcc8.log.gz >> The last lines of the build log are at the end of this report. >> >> To build with GCC 8, either set CC=gcc-8 CXX=g++-8 explicitly, >> or install the gcc, g++, gfortran, ... packages from experimental. >> >> apt-get -t=experimental install g++ >> >> Common build failures are new warnings resulting in build failures with >> -Werror turned on, or new/dropped symbols in Debian symbols files. >> For other C/C++ related build failures see the porting guide at >> http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-8/porting_to.html > > FWIW the severity of this bug report just got upgraded to serious but it > can be directly reproduced in an up-to-date sid system, as gcc-defaults > doesn't seem to have been switched to gcc-8 yet. > > It'd be nice if someone could take a look and fix the bug though. :) >
https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/cdebconf/merge_requests/2 fixes the build failure for me. There's a number of warnings in non-Werror parts of the code base that might be worth looking at, too. Cheers, Julien
