Hello, Everyone First of all, a personal message to Arjan: I CC'd this to you because of your involvement with a thread about this issue on the fedora-test list. If I am out of order in CC'ing you, I do apologize. This issue was originally discussed on the fedora-test list, shortly before FC4 was released. Since FC4 has been released, and the problem persists, I assumed the fedora-user list would be the place to take this. If you all say so, I will restart this thread on any list you tell me to. When attempting to compile KDE from SVN TRUNK on Fedora Core 4 (Fresh installation, not an upgrade. I waited for the official release as well. In addition, I installed EVERY package) I get the following error: > checking for gcc... gcc > checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out > checking whether the C compiler works... yes > checking whether we are cross compiling... no > checking for suffix of executables... > checking for suffix of object files... o > checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes > checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes > checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed > checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3 > checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E > checking for g++... g++ > checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes > checking whether g++ accepts -g... yes > checking dependency style of g++... gcc3 > checking whether gcc is blacklisted... yes > configure: error: > > This particular compiler version is blacklisted because it > is known to miscompile KDE. Please use a newer version, or > if that is not yet available, choose an older version. > > Please do not report a bug or bother us reporting this > configure error. We know about it, and we introduced > it by intention to avoid untraceable bugs or crashes in KDE. On the fedora-test list thread that I referred to earlier, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx> said the following: > the bug they mention is fixed in our gcc 4. that quote came in the following context: > > Hello, Everyone > > Since I frequent the kde-devel and kde-user lists, in addition to > > compiling, on a very regular basis, KDE from CVS (now SVN) HEAD on > > Fedora Core 3, I do know a LITTLE about this issue. > > Below is a link to the CVS commit where KDE's blacklisting of GCC4 > > seems to have started: > > http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-cvs&m=111451142117674&w=2 the bug they mention is fixed in our gcc 4. I am the one responsible for the link to KDE's cvs log. If KDE is at fault in not removing the blacklist against the version of gcc that Fedora happens to use, I would be glad to forward any information to them that might be persuasive in getting this fixed. Of course, you could do the same thing, but I have a lot more time on my hands than you do :) Thank you, Steven P. Ulrick
