[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#739903: Bug#739903: octave: ftbs with llvm 3.4

[Thomas Weber]

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:11:07AM +0100, Julian Taylor wrote:
> On 24.02.2014 00:04, Thomas Weber wrote:
> > On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 07:06:10PM +0100, Julian Taylor wrote:
> >> octave fails to build with llvm 3.4 default, this is currently the case
> >> in ubuntu. Full log is attached.
> > 
> > And this is a bug in Debian because of what? Or put differently, what do
> > you expect us Debian packagers to do with this bug?
> > 
> 
> it will affect a future transition, ideally you investigate how to fix
> it before it starts failing, but it will only turn RC at the day the
> transition occurs.

I misunderstood, sorry. This is not about transitioning form gcc to llvm,
but about the JIT part of Octave.

Looking through the upstream bug report, it seems that disabling the JIT
part would be the most sensible solution should this become a real
issue. Having an unstable API in your development tools is just a
minefiled waiting for someone to take the wrong step.

	Thomas