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

[Will Coleda via RT]

On Wed Dec 03 11:56:40 2008, coke wrote:
> 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? 

If more warnings surface, please document them at https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/BuildWarnings.

Thanks.

-- 
Will "Coke" Coleda