Troubling message from Fink (re: gcc)

michaelsanford

michaelsanford

Translator, Web Developer
WARNING: You are using a version of gcc which is known to produce incorrect
output from c++ code under certain circumstances.

So, naturally I
[amras@Homestar Runner ~]% which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc
[amras@Homestar Runner ~]% gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/3.3/specs
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1666)


Anyone know what the deal is with this ? :confused:
 
Your specs are _exactly_ the same as mine. I've either never noticed that warning or everything works fine regardless.
Just try to install what you were installing and see if anything goes effectively wrong during compilation.
 
Whacky. Well I haven't noticed any of my apps like, failing to build lately. ImageMagick didn't work with aMSN but that's probably aMSN's fault...
 
The package you're going to install seems to query the gcc version and issue the warning when the version doesn't match. You might get more info about that if you contact the package maintainer. Your options are either to ignore this warning or to use the GCC 2.95 (sudo gcc_select 2). I would first try to go with GCC 3.3 and ignore the warning, then trying to find out if the software works or not ;)
 
The latter is exactly my plan : ignore it and hope the package works.

Thanks, everyone, for your input.

(Also, I seem to have pretty much absolved Fink's imagemagick from my aMSN problem since the manually built one doesn't work either...)
 
Is GCC build 1666 the version of GCC that is shipped with XCode 1.5? If so, there have been loads of problems reported.
 
Yeah, I haven't updated gcc since I updated XCode to 1.5 and I installed (and use) gcc 3.3 so I assume the answer is yes.

Should have known...gcc 1666 :p
 
That is the bad build of gcc. The one that ships with XCode 1.2 is build 1495. In order to fix the problem, you need to get the compiler that shipped with XCode 1.2. A fix is described here.
 
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