[Mageia-dev] Upcoming release freeze: 14 packages needs fixing, by Sunday

Tue Apr 9 11:03:44 CEST 2013

On Mon, 8 Apr 2013, Juergen Harms wrote:
+
+> On 04/06/2013 06:35 AM, andre999 wrote:
+>> did a little research to hopefully help a bit, on packages still in the
+>> list.
+>> ( used http://rpmfind.net/linux/ )
+>
+>>> cross-avr-gcc
+>
+> See bugzilla: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7825
+>
+> Looks like an incompatibilty between the object gcc (which is now 4.7.2) and 
+> the target gcc (the specfile still pulls in 4.6.2).
+>
+> To make cross-avr-gcc build
+> - cross-avr-binutils (which is used as a dependency) must be rebuilt
+>  to use binutils-2.23 (the present cross-avr-binutils uses 2.20),
+2.23.2 I guess?
+
+> - cross-avr-gcc must be re-built to use gcc-4.7.2 (and some tweeks - see
+>  bugzilla 7825)
+We don't really have a choice here (:
+
+> I have locally made such a build and successfully use it in production
+> for building the software for my AVR cpus (attached my specfile = attachment 
+> 3044).
+>
+> The reasons why I did not submit my local build are that there are some 
+> serious rpmlint warnings (serious at least for cross-avr-binutils: complaints 
+> about the use of hardlinks) which I did not manage to get rid of - but also 
+> that I did not want to interfere with the work of the maintainer.
+
+The current package has the same rpmlint warnings so you don't need to fix 
+this right now INHO. The hardlinks are only a problem when /usr/bin is on 
+a different filesystem than /usr. I don't actually maintain these 
+packages so you will likely end up being the maintainer.
+
+avr-libc doesn't need to be updated?
+
+
+     Christiaan
+