Comment 7 for bug 634197

The issue cannot be seen in the attached build.log:

checking beecrypt/beecrypt.h usability... yes
checking beecrypt/beecrypt.h presence... yes
checking for beecrypt/beecrypt.h... yes
checking for mpfprintln in -lbeecrypt... no
-----------------------------------------^^ at least you see it failed, but that
                                            is not much helpful

I should have included config.log. ;( The test for the libbeecrypt.so failed and left unset WITH_BEECRYPT_INCLUDE="" in config.status instead of "-I/usr/include/beecrypt", due to some unresolved gcc 3.4.1? symbols. Please note that I wanted to compile rpm with gcc-4.3.x or 4.4.

After recompiling beecrypt with the current gcc I could subsequently compile also rpm against it.

I wanted to repeat the error but I cannot use i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.6 (no 3.4.1 anymore):

i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++ -m32 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../.. -I../../include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr/include -I/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.3.6/include -DOPTIMIZE_I386 -O2 -march=pentium4 -mmmx -msse -msse2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -ggdb -DNDEBUG -Wa,--noexecstack -MT PushbackInputStream.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/PushbackInputStream.Tpo -c PushbackInputStream.cxx -o PushbackInputStream.o >/dev/null 2>&1
mv -f .deps/InputStream.Tpo .deps/InputStream.Plo
../../include/beecrypt/c++/io/Writer.h:42: sorry, unimplemented: adjusting
   pointers for covariant returns
../../include/beecrypt/c++/io/Writer.h:42: sorry, unimplemented: adjusting
   pointers for covariant returns
../../include/beecrypt/c++/io/Writer.h:42: sorry, unimplemented: adjusting
   pointers for covariant returns
../../include/beecrypt/c++/io/Writer.h:42: sorry, unimplemented: adjusting
   pointers for covariant returns
distcc[31266] ERROR: compile Writer.cxx on localhost failed
make[3]: *** [Writer.lo] Error 1
make[3]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
mv -f .deps/PushbackInputStream.Tpo .deps/PushbackInputStream.Plo
mv -f .deps/PrintStream.Tpo .deps/PrintStream.Plo
make[3]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/beecrypt-4.2.1/work/beecrypt-4.2.1/c++/io'
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

When I tried to compile beecrypt with i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.2.4 and afterwards tried to compile rpm, it worked as well.

My conclusion is, that the objects produced by different gcc versions were not compatible. I wonder whether this could be detectable (by portage?).

The bug #234422 is I believe a dupe of this one.