On 02/09/16 08:39, Guido Günther wrote: > On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 01:26:05AM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >> On 08/08/16 10:20, Raphael Hertzog wrote: >>> On Mon, 08 Aug 2016, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >>>>> Shall we mark gcc-4.8 as unsupported in wheezy, explaining that its only >>>>> purpose is to enable build of other packages? >>>> >>>> That would make sense. >>>> >>>> I'll see if I can take a look at this. >>> >>> The problematic part is likely libstdc++. I would expect the new gcc to >>> assume that you have the corresponding libstdc++. >>> >>> Mike once told that Firefox has special code to avoid the increased >>> dependency but that might not be the case of other packages that we might >>> want to build with a newer gcc. >> >> I had a look at this. Matthias pointed me to gcc-mozilla from Ubuntu, which >> is >> GCC 4.8.4 shipped in one package. I built that for Wheezy, then built >> firefox_49.0~b1-1 using that. I had to disable PIE, but other than that it >> built >> fine and seems to work well. So I think we could go this route. >> >> For GCC at least we need to drop the gfdl bits, and we may want to update to >> 4.8.5, but in general it seems to work well. I was hitting a build failure >> that >> I could workaround by using an interactive shell. No idea if it's a pbuilder >> problem or what. That would need a little investigation. >> >> For Firefox, I didn't look much at the PIE issue. I just saw that it fails >> on a >> simple configure test when enabled, at the linker stage. With pie disabled, >> everything went well. > > That sounds great. Did you put the packages somewhere? I don't think we'll > run into any extra issues with Icedove but it might be worth checking > this out before the current ESR versions go EOL.
Packages are at https://people.debian.org/~pochu/lts/gcc/ gcc-mozilla is the one from [1], but putting it here for convenience (you can't dget from launchpad). Let me know if it works for you or if you have any issues. Cheers, Emilio [1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-mozilla
