[HarfBuzz] Building on RH 7

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 13-09-28 06:26 PM, Ian Walberg wrote:
> Ok, I was afraid of that.
> 
> We are using 3.4.6 at the moment and we can upgrade to 4.x this week and give it a try.
> 
> Any chance you know what is the minimum version of gcc is known to work?

Off the top of my head I don't remember any reports about problems with any
4.x, not in the past three years at least.  There have been a couple lingering
issues with template instantiations that I could never reproduced.  That one
is here:

  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60125

and it can be worked around for whoever does experience it.

behdad

> Many thanks
> 
> Ian
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Behdad Esfahbod [mailto:behdad.esfahbod at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Behdad Esfahbod
> Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 12:02 PM
> To: Ian Walberg; harfbuzz at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [HarfBuzz] Building on RH 7
> 
> On 13-09-27 08:01 PM, Ian Walberg wrote:
>> hb-open-type-private.hh:346: error: call of overloaded `CastP(const char*&)'
>> is ambiguous
> 
> Unfortunately gcc 3 is way too old to handle our templates, let alone gcc 2.96 which I guess is what's on RH7.  Your best bet I'd say is to bootstrap a gcc 4 compiler.
> 
> HTH
> 
> 
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