Bug 270358

Summary:	app-text/calibre 0.5.11/.12 depend on app-text/pdftk which doesn't build with gcc 4.4
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jose daLuz <jdaluz>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Printing Team <printing>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	2008.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jose daLuz 2009-05-18 22:47:00 UTC

Starting with 0.5.11 calibre depends on pdftk. However, *none* of the versions of pdftk in Portage will build with gcc 4.4 -- bug 269312 is for 1.41-r1 but I can confirm 1.41 and 1.12 won't build either. Also bug 264510 is for build problems with earlier gcc versions.

When 0.5.12 was added, 0.5.10 (the version I run) was removed. So currently anyone using gcc 4.4.0 will be forced to downgrade to 0.4.77.

0.5.10 should be added back to the tree so a recent version is available. Perhaps a USE flag controlling the use of pdftk as a dependency should be added but that would clearly be more work. In either case, the current situation with pdftk failing to build with various gcc versions makes it unsuited as a hard dependency.

Comment 1 Jose daLuz 2009-05-18 23:33:43 UTC

And less than an hour later, a patch that fixes building pdtfk with gcc 4.4 is posted on bug 269312. Talk about timing...

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2009-05-21 23:57:57 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 269312 ***