Results of a test mass rebuild of rawhide/x86_64 with gcc-4.7.0-0.1.fc17

[Jim Meyering]

Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 07:03:44PM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>>
>> I have just tried to build iwhd on F16 using a pretty recent gcc-4.7.x
>> (built manually: 4.7.0 20111202), and it worked fine, so I'm not quite
>> sure why iwhd is on the list.  Maybe the gcc-4.7.x that Jakub used
>> lacks something that's in my Dec 2 snapshot, or maybe it's simply a
>> problem in a dependent that has been fixed in the interim.
>
> iwhd was in the totally non-analyzed lists, which built normally
> in rawhide x86_64 mock and failed to build with
> that plus my gcc 4.7.0 + libtool repo.
> The failure was:
> checking gc.h presence... yes
> checking for gc.h... yes
> checking for mongo/client/dbclient.h... no
> configure: error: Missing Mongo DB client development library: mongodb-devel
> error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.ndPEGn (%build)
>     Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.ndPEGn (%build)
> RPM build errors:
> Child returncode was: 1

Hi Jakub,

Thanks for the details.
Sorry if my post made it look like a request for
more information from you.  At first, it was -- sort of --
but then I realized and explained that it was my own problem
for not putting the latest iwhd in rawhide.

> Given the huge amount of packages, I really don't have time to look
> at every one, the mass rebuild was performed mainly to determine
> gcc 4.7 readiness and find out most common porting issues when porting
> from 4.6 to 4.7.  The rebuilds were all done using mock, while with the
> same set of package NVRs (taken from 23rd SRPMS list), the rawhide distro
> could very well be slightly changing even over the period of the few
> days it took to rebuild everything.
>
> BTW, the stdbool configury problem I wrote about is solved on the
> gcc side, we optimize again the (not strictly valid) test and thus
> the standard autoconf 2.6[0-7] stdbool detection should work again.

Thanks for all the work.