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

Posted by Dirk Eddelbuettel on Feb 15, 2002; 1:35pm
URL: http://quantlib.414.s1.nabble.com/Debian-Bug-133913-quantlib-ruby-FTBFS-g-3-0-errors-hppa-unstable-tp9993p9999.html

Luigi,

Thanks a big bunch for getting the nasty details out from under the carpet...

On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:31:06PM +0100, Luigi Ballabio wrote:

> At 7:49 AM -0600 2/15/02, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> >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?
>
> 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's called "sid".  There is a ruby1.7_1.7.2.0cvs2002.01.18-1 package.
We could try that.

> It also needs a minor fix in SWIG which has been done in CVS but
> wasn't released either.

Okay, but as we figured, I don't need, or should, re-run swig anyway. So if
you can get hands on a reworked version, we could try a new QL snapshort of
QuantLib-Ruby. If we want it that badly which maybe we don't.

> The bottom line is, we're out in the cold :(
> Architectures with gcc 3.0.x are ruled out for the time being.

That's probably ok, especially as the fix will be forthcoming.

LaMont:  In a situation like this, is it ok if I actually prevent building
on hppa and ia64 via an explicit Architecture: tag in debian/control?

Dirk

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