Re: Failure to build on Fedora 9

[John Darrington]

Nobody is asking you to "destroy your toolchain". I was merely asking
you to try another tool in order to gather information.  If I had an
installation of fedora9 then I would try it myself.  But I don't.  So
we rely on volunteers.

J'

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 10:22:41AM +0200, Matej Cepl wrote:
     On 2008-05-19, 09:16 GMT, John Darrington wrote:
     > So, if it's at all possible, could you try an older compiler 
     > and let us know the result?  For the reasons mentioned below, 
     > I'm reasonably confident you will find that 4.1.x or 4.2.x will 
     > work, but I would like you to try it, just to be sure.
     >
     > Looking at the gcc release notes at
     > http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.3/porting_to.html seems to suggest that we're
     > on the right track.   In which case, which uses gsl and is compiled
     > using gcc 4.3 is going to break in the same way.  I think the gsl
     > maintainers should be made aware of this (if they're not already).
     
     Are you sure, you are not joking? I should spend couple of hours 
     destroying my toolchain (these packages are all dependent on each 
     other, so maybe even some recompilation would be needed) just in 
     order to prove that your code is broken as it is described on the 
     website you himself quote? What about other way -- you fixing 
     your code for the known bugs, and me testing it afterwards?
     
     I really don't need pspp that much -- just from my old love for 
     social sciences, I thought it would be cool to have finally pspp 
     working and packaging it for Fedora, so that next me looking for 
     a statistical package for sociology wouldn't need to find hard 
     way that pspp (old version that is) cannot really read SPSS files 
     and breaks them.
     
     Oh well, if you don't feel like you want to have your code fixed, 
     then Fedora won't have pspp. Oh well.
     
     Best,
     
     Matěj
     
     
     
     _______________________________________________
     pspp-dev mailing list
     address@hidden
     http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-dev

-- 
PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 
fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285  A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3
See http://pgp.mit.edu or any PGP keyserver for public key.

signature.asc
Description: Digital signature