[arch-dev-public] gcc 4.5 bug - what to do?

[Allan McRae]

On 21/07/10 17:07, Firmicus wrote:
> On 20/07/2010 23:16, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:00:06 +0200, Thomas Bächler
>> <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
>>> Am 20.07.2010 22:52, schrieb Firmicus:
>>>> Yesterday I had bug report on a segfaulting binary for x86_64 that
>>>> ships
>>>> with texlive-bin in testing:
>>>> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20199
>>>> I have reported the bug upstream:
>>>> https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3031498&group_id=145640&atid=762580
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> and as suspected it turned out to be a bug with gcc 4.5:
>>>> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=45008
>>>>
>>>> Now this means I have no means to include a working binary of dvisvgm
>>>> for x86_64 in texlive-bin until that bug is resolved, since I cannot
>>>> rely on gcc 4.4.x and no patch is available...
>>>>
>>>> What is the procedure you guys follow is such situations?
>>> Run in circles, scream and shout at people. Then after some time start
>>> crying. I have really no idea.
>> A more practical approach would be to compile the package with gcc 4.4
>> (there are mirrors containing old packages) and accept that this is an
>> ugly but temporary workaround. You should also open a bug report on our
>> bug tracker and link to the upstream one.
> Done: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/20242
> but I see that Allan is already listed on the cc list upstream.
>

It is an interesting bug...   It is fixed in gcc mainline.  In fact, it 
is fixed within a week of branching gcc-4.5, so it is weird that it has 
not been backported.

Allan