Re: Fun with python-apt

2003-06-15 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Saturday, Jun 14, 2003, at 18:45 US/Eastern, Matt Zimmerman wrote: My two questions were: 1) Why did dpkg-buildpackage wind up compiling with the wrong compiler? Isn't there a C++ transition plan that should prevent that. python-apt will, by default, use the de

Re: Fun with python-apt

2003-06-15 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 03:23:37PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > In a perfect world, somehow the correct gcc would be used (to make sure > C++ ABI problems don't happen). Not sure if we can have that perfect world > or not; see below. No, we can't. Not today, and definitely not a year ago.

Re: Fun with python-apt

2003-06-15 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Saturday, Jun 14, 2003, at 19:17 US/Eastern, Matt Zimmerman wrote: This was before woody released, before there was any kind of C++ ABI transition plan, before there was even a g++-3.2 in the archive. Surely you aren't suggesting that last year's build-dependencies should have anticipated

Re: Fun with python-apt

2003-06-15 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sunday, Jun 15, 2003, at 15:50 US/Eastern, Matt Zimmerman wrote: Er, no. Those binaries would work perfectly fine if you had built apt with the same C++ ABI. But I can't specify in a build-dependency "oh, and your apt must be built with the same C++ ABI". I _certainly_ can't do so retroa