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On Saturday 10 April 2004 05:46, Elfyn McBratney wrote: |
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> Hello devs, |
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> Before I begin, sorry if I should have sent this to the -user list.. |
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> Please forward it there/moan at me if so. :) |
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> At the moment, re2c is completely broken w.r.t. gcc 3.x. And as most |
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> people are living on the bleedin' edge (i.e., not using gcc 2.x) re2c is |
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> completely broken for them. |
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We know. Bug #43449 covers this. |
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> So, I propose the maintainers of php*-cvs/re2c do one of:- |
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> 1) Pull from portage. Drastic, yes, but why have ebuilds in the tree if |
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> the wont compile for most gentoo users? |
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I believe that re2c is required for something or other to do with php5. |
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Coredumb's really the best person to answer that, but he doesn't seem to be |
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around much lately :( |
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> 2) Fix them. I'll try as hard as I can (I've done most of the porting |
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> of re2c (current ver in portage), I'm just left with a few C++ idioms..) to |
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> fix it up so it's usable. |
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Why duplicate work? Take a look at re2c.org ... there's already a project |
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underway to deal with this, which includes important patches from the PHP |
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developers. |
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If you update bug #43449 with an ebuild for re2c.org's version, I'll happily |
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take a look at it. |
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Best regards, |
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Stu |
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Stuart Herbert stuart@g.o |
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Gentoo Developer http://www.gentoo.org/ |
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Missed the php|cruise? http://dev.gentoo.org/~stuart/cruise-2004/ |
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