[Bf-committers] call for test build 2

Ken Hughes khughes at pacific.edu
Fri Apr 4 22:29:09 CEST 2008


Arne Schmitz wrote:
> Am Freitag, 4. April 2008 19:26:00 schrieb Ken Hughes:
>   
>> BTW, confirmed what I suspected might be an issue with linux test
>> builds.  In order to use OpenMP, I had to install debian lenny (their
>> next "test release") which uses gcc 4.2.  In the process, it also
>> upgraded glibc from version 2.3.6 to 2.7.  Now I'm not sure without
>> looking whether gcc 4.2 requires glibc 2.7, but in any case the test
>> builds will not work unless the system has it installed.
>>
>> I'm going to be busy the rest of the day, but can someone confirm for me
>> whether or not gcc 4.2 does depend on glibc 2.7?  If not then I'll look
>> into uninstalling 2.7.
>>     
>
> Well, you can find out via apt-cache depends. But almost all of lenny depends 
> on libc 2.7, I think.
>   
yeah, so does sid.  I don't see any backport for gcc-4.2 into etch.

Ken


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