Re: Compiling some packages fails when using -flto with the new gcc-4.5.0

[Piotr Juźwiak]

On Tuesday 15 of June 2010 19:41:44 Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> Hi Piotr,
> 
> thanks for the bug report.
> 
> * Piotr Juźwiak wrote on Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 04:28:05PM CEST:
> > gstreamer_0.10_la-gstquery.o .libs/libgstreamer_0.10_la-
> > gstregistry.o
> > .libs/libgstreamer_0.10_la-gstregistrychunks.o
> 
> [...]
> 
> > .libs/libgstreamer_0.10_la-gstmarshal.o
> > parse/.libs/libgstparse.a |  |
> > /bin/sed 's/.* //' | sort | uniq > .libs/libgstreamer-0.10.exp'
> > ../libtool: line 950: warning: syntax errors in . or eval will 
cause
> > future
> > versions of the shell to abort as Posix requires
> > make[4]: *** [libgstreamer-0.10.la] Error 1
> 
> Yes, errors like this are due to the missing support for -flto in
> Libtool.
> 
> I started a patch series for fixing Libtool:
> 
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.general/10794/focus=10808>
> 
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.patches/9767>
> but so far, only one of the four patches got merged.  Some 
still
> needs further work, some still need review.
> 
> For example, my fellow maintainers could review these:
> 
<http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.general/10794/focus=9769>
> 
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.libtool.general/10810>
> 
> Cheers,
> Ralf

I could test them if you wish and report on results. Thanks