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

Posted by LaMont Jones-8 on Feb 18, 2002; 12:10am
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Debian-Bug-133913-quantlib-ruby-FTBFS-g-3-0-errors-hppa-unstable-tp9993p9997.html

> Ok, here's the final word from the Ruby gurus.
>
> It's a bug in the Ruby headers. It needs a fix in Ruby which has been
> done in the Ruby development branch (Ruby 1.7.something) but not in
> the current release (or at least not the one in Woody. I don't know
> which version of Ruby you have in... wait, what was the name of the
> character now? Well, unstable anyway)
> It also needs a minor fix in SWIG which has been done in CVS but
> wasn't released either.
>
> The bottom line is, we're out in the cold :(
> Architectures with gcc 3.0.x are ruled out for the time being.

ruby_1.6.6-5 is in sid (which will always be unstable)

Depending on how invasive the fix is, I suppose the ruby maintainer
could port the fix back to ruby 1.6.6-5, and thereby fix all these
ruby-dependants.  Akira?

lamont