[HarfBuzz] Building on RH 7

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On 13-09-29 07:12 PM, Ian Walberg wrote:
> I have built with 4.0.4 ok today as that was the only version of gcc we could get to build on RH 7.1.

Good to know.  Thanks for sharing.


> Not yet tested the libraries that were created.

They should work just fine.  Please let us know.


> Thanks
> 
> Ian
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Behdad Esfahbod [mailto:behdad.esfahbod at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Behdad Esfahbod
> Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2013 1:43 PM
> To: Ian Walberg; harfbuzz at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [HarfBuzz] Building on RH 7
> 
> 
> 
> 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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> behdad
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