Re: [Debian Bug#133913: quantlib-ruby: FTBFS: g++ 3.0 errors (hppa/unstable)]

Posted by Dirk Eddelbuettel on
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Debian-Bug-133913-quantlib-ruby-FTBFS-g-3-0-errors-hppa-unstable-tp9993p9995.html

On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 10:36:21AM +0000, Luigi Ballabio wrote:

> At 04:29 PM 2/14/02 -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> >Here is another g++-3.0 bug report regarding quantlib, or in particular the
> >Ruby bindings. I'd appreciate any comments. Luigi?
>
> Ouch.
> It's not just an hppa problem. It seems like SWIG/Ruby bindings have a big
> problem with g++ 3.0 - I just reproduced it on i386. Unfortunately it's not
> our code---it's either the Ruby API or the SWIG-generated wrappers. I just
> sent a mail to the relevant mailing lists to ask for insight. We'll see.
>
> In the meantime, would it be possible to compile with 2.95.x on hppa?

IIRC, no. On ia64 we can choose between 2.95.* and 3.0.* but for a reason I
always forget we prefer 3.0.*.

On the hppa architecture, however, only 3.0.* is supported. 2.95.* simply
does not exist.

Dirk

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