Bug 142542 – hwinfo-13.0 will never build with gcc3

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Chris Slycord 2006-08-02 07:43:41 UTC]

When building hwinfo-13.0, it uses the gcc option -Wno-pointer-sign which was only introduced with gcc4. I don't get the error myself, as I have gcc-4.1.1 but I verified that it chooses that option to be used.

Snipet from "emerge hwinfo":

gcc -c -Wall -Wno-pointer-sign -O2 -pipe -g -fPIC -march=pentium4 -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe

And here's a link to see where the actual error "in action":
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-485785-highlight-.html

[Comment 1 Robin Johnson 2006-08-02 10:20:43 UTC]

/me kicks upstream.
it would be nice if they documented things like that...

[Comment 2 Marcus Furlong 2006-08-07 09:30:56 UTC]

Created attachment 93674 [details, diff]
files/hwinfo-13.0-makefile-fixes.patch

uncomment the following existing line in the ebuild:

 EPATCH_OPTS="-p1 -d ${S}" epatch ${FILESDIR}/${P}-makefile-fixes.patch

This fixes the compilation problem under gcc3

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-09-20 03:36:44 UTC]

*** Bug 148241 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 4 Casey Allen Shobe 2006-09-20 10:05:55 UTC]

This is especially important on hardened as gcc4 is not yet available on hardened systems due to problems.

[Comment 5 Robin Johnson 2006-09-29 15:40:30 UTC]

fixed in cvs.