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From: Elfyn McBratney <elfyn.mcbratney@×××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, stuart@g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] re2c woes - badly broken with gcc 3.x - offering help, possible ebuild maintainership
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 17:14:37
Message-Id: 200404111812.29636@i.emcb.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] re2c woes - badly broken with gcc 3.x - offering help, possible ebuild maintainership by Stuart Herbert
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4 On Sunday 11 Apr 2004 16:40, Stuart Herbert wrote:
5 > On Saturday 10 April 2004 05:46, Elfyn McBratney wrote:
6 > > Hello devs,
7 > >
8 > > Before I begin, sorry if I should have sent this to the -user list..
9 > > Please forward it there/moan at me if so. :)
10 > >
11 > > At the moment, re2c is completely broken w.r.t. gcc 3.x. And as most
12 > > people are living on the bleedin' edge (i.e., not using gcc 2.x) re2c is
13 > > completely broken for them.
14 >
15 > We know. Bug #43449 covers this.
16
17 Sorry, I did look.. not hard enough though. 8)
18
19 > > So, I propose the maintainers of php*-cvs/re2c do one of:-
20 > >
21 > > 1) Pull from portage. Drastic, yes, but why have ebuilds in the tree
22 > > if the wont compile for most gentoo users?
23 >
24 > I believe that re2c is required for something or other to do with php5.
25 > Coredumb's really the best person to answer that, but he doesn't seem to be
26 > around much lately :(
27
28 Yep, it's used to build parts of the perser.
29
30 > > 2) Fix them. I'll try as hard as I can (I've done most of the porting
31 > > of re2c (current ver in portage), I'm just left with a few C++ idioms..)
32 > > to fix it up so it's usable.
33 >
34 > Why duplicate work? Take a look at re2c.org ... there's already a project
35 > underway to deal with this, which includes important patches from the PHP
36 > developers.
37
38 I have been looking around but didn't come across re2c.org.. Thanks! :)
39
40 > If you update bug #43449 with an ebuild for re2c.org's version, I'll
41 > happily take a look at it.
42
43 I'll give it a shot :)
44
45 Elfyn
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