On 15/04/18 01:42, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2018-04-14 at 02:11 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> On Sat, 2018-04-14 at 01:57 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: >> [...] >>> I've pushed my version to: >>> https://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/wheezy-security/ >>> >>> I believe this builds the right set of binary packages, and the files >>> contained in them match the binaries built from 4.9.2-10+deb8u1 with a >>> few exceptions that seem to make sense. >>> >>> I'm not sure whether the packages all work. There are some new test >>> failures (I'm comparing with the build log for 4.9.2-10+b1). Some of >>> these may be due to bugs in library packages built from gcc-4.7. I >>> don't know how much effort we should put into investigating these. >> >> [...] >> >> Wonderful, they're not even installable: >> >> dpkg: regarding .../gcc-4.9-base_4.9.2-10+deb7u1_amd64.deb containing >> gcc-4.9-base:amd64: >> gcc-4.9-base breaks gcc-4.7-base (<< 4.7.3) >> gcc-4.7-base:amd64 (version 4.7.2-5) is present and installed. >> >> I'll try again. > > The way I've tweaked the gcc-4.9 package is just not going to work. > For example, libgcc1 built from gcc-4.9 has symbols that libgcc1 built > from gcc-4.7 does not. But we can't replace the latter. > > So now I'm looking at how gcc-mozilla works, because that does > essentially what we need.
If you let me know when you have test packages, I can rebuild and test firefox-esr and thunderbird against 4.9, as those are the only build-rdeps of gcc-mozilla. Cheers, Emilio
