There is a problem with the ebuild for dev-util/insight-6.4 when compiling using the newly stabilized gcc-4.1.1 which also applies to any version of gcc >= version 4.0. The "-fwritable-strings" flag has been deprecated in versions of gcc < 4.0 and is now entirely unsupported by gcc >= 4.0. Any packages that use this when running gcc will not successfully build but will rather generate an error and fail when using gcc >= 4.0. Any code that requires this flag should definitely be fixed anyhow because it is not a good idea to write to const char* strings. I noticed this specifically with insight as it uses this option and therefore I am specifically reporting this for insight.
Hmm; I merged dev-util/insight-6.4 yesterday on my amd64 box using gcc-4.1.1 with no problem; there's no mention of -fwritable-strings in the build log. Please paste the output of 'emerge --info'.
I have the same problem (also just upgraded to gcc 4.1.1, my emerge --info: Portage 2.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-gentoo-r4custom i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-gentoo-r4custom i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.4 app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r3 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/gentoo " MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X Xaw3d alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cli crypt css cups dlloader dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo evo2 foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imap imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde lame libg++ libwww live mad maildir mikmod mmx mmxext motif mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg opengl oss pam pam-mysql pcre pda pdflib perl png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime radiotap readline reflection sasl sdl session spell spl sse ssl tcl tcpd truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode vorbis win32codecs xinerama xml xmms xorg xsl xv zeroconf zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_radeon video_cards_fglrx video_cards_vesa" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Can one of you guys attach a build log? A quick search of the insight-6.4 source shows a few mentions of fwritable-strings, but they're all either in ChangeLog files or are comments, so I don't see how it's happening.. (set PORT_LOGDIR to a suitable directory in /etc/make.conf to get portage to record the log to a file)
(In reply to comment #3) > Can one of you guys attach a build log? A quick search of the insight-6.4 > source shows a few mentions of fwritable-strings, but they're all either in > ChangeLog files or are comments, so I don't see how it's happening.. > > (set PORT_LOGDIR to a suitable directory in /etc/make.conf to get portage to > record the log to a file) > This is really odd to me. I just decided to try the slightly older version 6.1 which died with the same error, but then I tried 6.4 again and it worked perfectly.
Created attachment 95906 [details] The older, unmasked 6.1 version fails I attempted to use the 6.1 version - here's the build log for it
Created attachment 95907 [details] Version 6.4 build log Oddly now the 6.4 version worked for me as you can see by this build log
well if it works for everyone.. lets close
*** Bug 147011 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Well, I've just updated my system to gcc-4.1, and insight failed when I was doing "emerge -e world". Since that emerge still did not finish, I haven't tried to emerge insight again. I will try soon.
