[perl #44389] [CAGE] Excessive warnings on Apple's gcc 3.3 wrt attributes

[Will Coleda via RT]

On Sat Aug 04 06:42:44 2007, jkeen at verizon.net wrote:
> chromatic wrote:
> 
> >
> > Ahh, this patch fixes things for me.  My gcc is also available as cc
> (and I'm
> > using ccache), so checking that it matches the literal string 'gcc'
> doesn't
> > work.  Explicitly checking that it has a GCC version number works
> better.
> >
> 
> Unfortunately, it did not improve things for me.
> 
> -rw-r--r--   1 jimk  jimk    71898 Jul 15 10:30 15.07.2007.make.txt
> -rw-r--r--   1 jimk  jimk    73181 Jul 22 21:17 21.07.2007.make.txt
> -rw-r--r--   1 jimk  jimk  7167507 Aug  3 21:43 03.08.2007.make.txt
> -rw-r--r--   1 jimk  jimk  7167507 Aug  4 07:24 04.08.2007.make.txt
> 
> Note that I have to call Configure.pl in the following manner:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> CC="/usr/bin/gcc-3.3"
> CX="/usr/bin/g++-3.3"
> /usr/local/bin/perl Configure.pl --cc="$CC" --cxx="$CX" --link="$CX" \
>      --ld="$CX" --without-icu --without-gmp \
>      $@
> 

A few notes:

- The patch on this ticket doesn't apply anymore.
- I can't even run configure with gcc 3.3 on my OSX 10.4.11 box, either 
with a straight gcc_select 3.3 or with the explicit settings listed 
here. I'm not sure 3.3 is meant to work on OS X/intel, though.

It is tempting to drop 3.3 support for now and concentrate on 4.x for 
the parrot 1.0 release. A pointer to a gcc version/OS X version/CPU arch 
matrix would be nice, if anyone can find one.

If anyone is successfully running gcc3.x on OS X, can you duplicate the 
report? 

-- 
Will "Coke" Coleda