xorg-server-1.14.1.902 - build error

Chris Clayton chris2553 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 23 01:00:02 PDT 2013


Hi Matt.

On 06/27/13 02:46, Matt Dew wrote:
> On 06/26/2013 01:20 AM, Chris Clayton wrote:
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>> I see that 1.14.2 has been released without any of the above happening.
>> That's no big deal, but Matt's statement in the release notice "that
>> this release doesn't work with gcc 4.8-snapshot" is a bit misleading. As
>> I reported, it won't *build* with gcc-4.8 snapshot. Once my patch is
>> applied, it builds fine and, from my experience over the last two weeks,
>> it works fine too.
>
> Hi Chris,
>    I didn't feel there was enough time to properly bake that patch so I
> didn't include it in 1.14.2.
>

 From a quick look at the source, I see that my patch has not been 
applied yet. Like the 1.14.2 release candidates, 1.14.2.902 does not 
build without it when the compiler is a recent 4.8 gcc release.

Chris

>     It wasn't my intent to be misleading but to me, in this regard, 'not
> building' is the same as 'doesn't work'.
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> Matt
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>> Chris
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