[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#505956: FTBFS with GCC 4.4: wants gcc <= 4.3

[Martin Michlmayr]

Package: virtualbox-ose
Version: 1.6.6-dfsg-3
User: debian-gcc at lists.debian.org
Usertags: ftbfs-gcc-4.4

Your package fails to build with the upcoming GCC 4.4.  Version 4.4
has not been released yet but I'm building with a snapshot in order
to find errors and give people an advance warning.

You can reproduce this problem with gcc-snapshot from unstable.

> Automatic build of virtualbox-ose_1.6.6-dfsg-3 on em64t by sbuild/amd64 0.53
...
> dh_testdir
> ./configure \
> 	    --with-linux="/usr" \
> 	    --disable-kmods \
> 	    --with-gcc=/usr/bin/gcc-4.2 \
> 	    --with-g++=/usr/bin/g++-4.2
> Checking for environment: Determined build machine: linux.amd64, target machine: linux.amd64, OK.
> Checking for kBuild: found, OK.
> Checking for gcc: 
>   ** gcc version 4.4.0 found, expected gcc 3.x with x>1 or gcc 4.x with 0<x<4!
> make: *** [env.sh] Error 1

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Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/