Have there been any problems with Wine on GCC 4.7?

Scott Ritchie scott at open-vote.org
Mon Jul 23 22:02:05 CDT 2012


On 07/23/2012 07:44 PM, Austin English wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 7:06 PM, Scott Ritchie <scott at open-vote.org> wrote:
>> Wine is the last remaining package still depending on GCC 4.5 in the
>> current Ubuntu alpha, it would be nice to drop GCC 4.5 and forward port
>> Wine, however 4.6 is known to not work too well.
>>
>> But now we have 4.7 -- have there been any bugs attributed to its usage?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Scott Ritchie
> 
> My understanding was that the problems introduced in 4.6 are still in 4.7.
> 


Would you mind pointing me to the GCC bugs / test cases we have for
this?  I seem to remember them being a bit impractical (ie, run this 2
gb proprietary app and watch it break), but I think I can help refer the
right people.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie



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