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=== Tracking GCC 4.4 related build errors ===

I built the Debian archive with GCC 4.4 to report build errors and filed about 220 bugs (the majority with patches). There are roughly 30 build failures left that I haven't analyzed yet. There are also about 35 packages that fail because the boost headers don't work with GCC 4.4. I'll try to build them when the boost headers get fixed.

I used the ftbfs-gcc-4.4 user tag (with debian-gcc@lists.debian.org as the user) to track these bugs: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=ftbfs-gcc-4.4;users=debian-gcc@lists.debian.org
If you run into GCC 4.4 related build failures that I missed, please use the same user tag.

The majority of GCC 4.4 build errors are trivial. The large majority of failures is because of missing #include statements, as described at http://www.cyrius.com/journal/gcc/gcc-4.4-include

There are also about 20 build errors because of improved preprocessor checks, as described at http://www.cyrius.com/journal/gcc/gcc-4.4-preprocessor-errors

-- Martin Michlmayr

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After almost a decade of tedious buildd maintainance, for which we are grateful, Ryan Murray has handed over buildds to new people. Ryan will continue to take care of the alpha buildds, whilst mips(el) will now be maintained by Thiemo Seufer and Martin Zobel-Helas. powerpc has been passed on to Philipp Kern and Wouter Verhelst and i386 will be taken over by Philipp Kern and Luk Claes as soon as a DSA'ed buildd is available. The new maintainers are interested in discovering and fixing problems with their buildds so if you sent yet to be handled inquiries to <arch>@buildd.d.o for one of the above architectures, please resend it.

The current list of buildd maintainers (please note that not all mail aliases are switched, yet):

  • alpha: Ryan Murray
  • amd64: Kurt Roeckx, Frederik Schüler
  • arm: Aurelien Jarno, Wookey
  • armel: Riku Voipio
  • hppa: LaMont Jones

  • i386: Philipp Kern, Luk Claes
  • ia64: LaMont Jones

  • mips: Thiemo Seufer, Martin Zobel-Helas
  • mipsel: Martin Zobel-Helas, Thiemo Seufer
  • powerpc: Philipp Kern, Wouter Verhelst
  • s390: Bastian Blank
  • sparc: Martin Zobel-Helas

-- Philipp Kern

I built the Debian archive with GCC 4.4 to report build errors and filed about 220 bugs (the majority with patches). There are roughly 30 build failures left that I haven't analyzed yet. There are also about 35 packages that fail because the boost headers don't work with GCC 4.4. I'll try to build them when the boost headers get fixed.

I used the ftbfs-gcc-4.4 user tag (with debian-gcc@lists.debian.org as the user) to track these bugs: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=ftbfs-gcc-4.4;users=debian-gcc@lists.debian.org If you run into GCC 4.4 related build failures that I missed, please use the same user tag.

The majority of GCC 4.4 build errors are trivial. The large majority of failures is because of missing #include statements, as described at http://www.cyrius.com/journal/gcc/gcc-4.4-include

There are also about 20 build errors because of improved preprocessor checks, as described at http://www.cyrius.com/journal/gcc/gcc-4.4-preprocessor-errors

-- Martin Michlmayr

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