Re: gcc-4.6 and Fremantle, WIP
 

Yes, I have tried and messed with these without deep understanding. I confess these are packages by me. I can't find my sources for them, but I think they have something wrong.

I think you can install automake from extras-devel and it contains /usr/bin/automake-1.10 (1.10.1).

I have used/I'm using autoconf-2.68 copied from my Ubuntu.

Ugly (but working?):
Not sure what else it needs, maybe all these:
Some of them are also in different path, so you must delete them, or overwrite old symlinks. e.g

Re: gcc-4.6 and Fremantle, WIP
 

Could you please package the newer autotools (autoconf >= 2.64 but overriding the scrathcbox autoconf, automake >= 1.10 but overriding the scratchbox automake)? You must be good at it as you made a lot of ports ;)



Thanks

Re: gcc-4.6 and Fremantle, WIP
 

I have tried that and there were some problems, can't remember what, maybe they all related to the autobuilder. But maybe it is possible to do package locally and share it outside of extras. I can't do that until end part of of July.

Re: gcc-4.6 and Fremantle, WIP
 

OK. Do you still have the sources adapted for Maemo? I may try to compile them locally.

Re: gcc-4.6 and Fremantle, WIP
 

Seems I have lost my trials. Of course 'apt-get source' will give what is pushed to the extras-devel, but they might be totally useless.

Best bet is: http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/autoconf
m4 is slightly too low ( 1.4.13 > 1.4.8-2)

And for automake: http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/automake
Where dpkg is too low (1.15.4 > 1.14.25maemo3+0m5)

I can't say would it be better to use old m4 and dpkg or pack them also. (I guess using older versions is better, because new autoconf/automake can be *used* with current m4/dpkg).

Re: gcc-4.6 and Fremantle, WIP
 

I'm still trying to port applauncher for normal usage, not only for meecolay as this could diminish the problem of too low amount of RAM in N900 (with applauncher the libraries are shared). Could you take a look at this: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...7&postcount=40

Re: gcc-4.6 and Fremantle, WIP
 

I've compiled newer sqlite3, could you please test it on-device?
If it's ok, I'll push it to the repos.
I renamed debian/*.symbols as it caused problems.

http://marmistrz.net63.net/meecolay/sqlite3/

Re: gcc-4.6 and Fremantle, WIP
 

Has anyone tried porting newer libtool ( >= 2.2)?
I tried building the one from Harmattan but I've got very strange problems (as disappearing Makefile.in)

Re: gcc-4.6 and Fremantle, WIP
 

Back to Topic.
I'm not sure is there any package on extras-devel using gcc-4.6 or g++4.6.

But here comes instructions how to use g++-4.6 with autobuilder.
1) debian/control
-Architecture: any
+Architecture: armel
(because compiler on builder is only arm-to-arm)

2) debian/control
+Build-Depends: g++-4.6, binutils2.22
(because g-4.6 needs binutils2.22)

3) debian/control
+Depends: libstdc++6 (>4.6.1)
(I hope this will not break existing applications. I have tested only with one device and didn't seen any failures)

4) Makefile (or configure, configure.ac ...)
-CXX = g++
+CXX = g++-4.6
+LDFLAGS += -B /usr/binutils2.22/bin
(This works better than tuning PATH during debian/rules with PATH=/usr/binutils2.22/bin:$PATH)

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And I'm slipping topic again, but seems same approach could work even builder has gcc-4.7 (maybe even +thumb).

Re: gcc-4.6 and Fremantle, WIP
 

I rebuilt libc6. Still causes the same problems (broken locales and Calendar crashing) but now with source. And less changed than the previous. (only hard changed to softfp)

http://marmistrz.net63.net/public/libc-new/