gcc-4.2/g++-4.2 build dependency should be dropped

[Matthias Klose]

Binary package hint: enigmail

This package build-depends on an old gcc version; please fix the package so that it does build with the default version of gcc.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

libept seems to build fine with the default gcc in Intrepid. (And it doesn't explicitly build-depend on gcc++-4.2, so nothing to change there.)

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

comparing https://launchpadlibrarian.net/20137557/enigmail_0.95.7-1ubuntu1.dsc and https://launchpadlibrarian.net/13090210/enigmail_0.95.0-0ubuntu5.dsc I would say that this is fixed for enigmail in jaunty.

[Stéphane Glondu (glondu)]

The build dependency has been dropped in ocaml 3.11.0 (in unstable)

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

I looked into boost. It has serious issues compiling with even gcc 4.3. These are the upstream bugs about it: http://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&summary=~4.3&order=priority

There is a patch in the debian sources to work with gcc 4.3, but the debian/Notes file indicates it is incomplete. And of course, 4.3 is not 4.4.

But let's say boost did compile perfectly with 4.4. The changes you'd have to make: You'd have to change the Build-Depends, the rules file, and and all the installed libraries have 'gcc42' in their name, so you'd have to adjust all the .install files.

[Fabrice Coutadeur (fabricesp)]

changed in version 2007.dfsg.2-6ubuntu1 in karmic

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

boost source package is no longer in archive, in favor of version-specific names like boost-mpi-source1.53. These boost packages now use the system g++.