587998 – All KDE packages fail with clang due to broken version checks

Bug 587998 - All KDE packages fail with clang due to broken version checks

Summary: All KDE packages fail with clang due to broken version checks

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Eclasses (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team

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Blocks:	588226
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Reported:	2016-07-04 15:37 UTC by Lori
Modified:	2016-07-07 13:44 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Lori 2016-07-04 15:37:58 UTC

Traditionally KDE and related packages have been very Clang friendly, and I have built them with Clang for quite a while. However, a recent change in kde-misc/kdiff3 and kde-misc/krename for example checks for GCC greater than 4.6. This is ok, if we intend to build with gcc, but it shouldn't break the build if we intend to build with Clang. With all the recent excellent work to make Clang work as a system compiler, this seems like a regression.

Comment 1 Lori 2016-07-04 16:36:46 UTC

The problem is in /usr/portage/eclass/kde4-base.eclass:622.

Comment 2 Michael Palimaka (kensington) gentoo-dev

2016-07-07 13:44:57 UTC

Thanks, fixed in git.

I started a tracker bug for this because there are now potentially hundreds of packages broken for clang across the tree.

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=0788b3785c3ed148a430329152b18073c6d1f23f
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=6fadcfcff3caa95536fa1942806607881a35f205