[HarfBuzz] Building on RH 7

Behdad Esfahbod behdad at behdad.org
Sun Sep 29 13:43:07 PDT 2013



On 13-09-29 04:42 PM, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> 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.

So, looks like the latest comment in that bug says 4.3.4 had the issue while
4.5.4 works fine.


> 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
>>
>>
>> --
>> behdad
>> http://behdad.org/
>>
> 

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