Debian Bug report logs - #314228
RM: cxx -- RoM; unusable with current binutils

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@mit.edu>

To: debian-alpha@lists.debian.org, Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: Re: trouble installing cxx

Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 18:08:39 -0500

Package: cxx

Dannis 't Hart wrote:

>On Fri, 2003-01-03 at 09:00, Alan Young wrote:
>  
>
>>On 02 Jan 2003 23:45:31 +0100 Dannis 't Hart <dchart@dds.nl> wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>It complains:
>>>
>>>chmod: failed to get attributes of
>>>`usr/lib/compaq/cxx-6.3.9.7/alpha-linux/bin/crtbegin.o': No such file or
>>>directory
>>>chmod: failed to get attributes of
>>>`usr/lib/compaq/cxx-6.3.9.7/alpha-linux/bin/crtend.o': No such file or
>>>directory
>>>      
>>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>It might be a typo in the install script.  The paths you show above are
>>missing the initial / at the beginning. The paths should begin as /usr
>>not just usr.
>>
>>Also, these two files are just symlinks into files that reside in your gcc
>>installation directory.  You might want to check you flipped your
>>/usr/lib/gcc-lib/ subdirectories correctly between 2.95 and 3.2.
>>
>>Alan
>>
>>    
>>
>Your hints convinced me to search for the install script. The error
>appeared while executing /var/lib/dpkg/info/cxx.postinst.
>Nevertheless, this script seemed correct; the relative paths are
>intentional, from an unpacking directory. After looking closer, I
>noticed it was actually an inconsistency in the RPM, because it made a
>symlink to /usr/lib/crtbegin.o and /usr/lib/crtend.o. And of course
>these became dangling, because Debian puts them in
>/usr/lib/gcc-lib/alpha-linux/2.95.4
>
>So, the workaround was to temporarily create 2 extra symlinks:
>
>cd /usr/lib
>ln -s /usr/lib/gcc-lib/alpha-linux/2.95.4/crtbegin.o crtbegin.o
>ln -s /usr/lib/gcc-lib/alpha-linux/2.95.4/crtend.o crtend.o
>
>And then the packages installed right. 
>It consequently makes correct symlinks in
>/usr/lib/compaq/cxx-6.3.9.7/alpha-linux/bin
>
>So you can clean up the temporary symlinks in /usr/lib.
>
Thanks for pointing this out, I'll look for and try to fix this in the 
next cxx .deb release, in addition to the two other open cxx bugs.

I've got to wishlist migrating all of these packages to gcc-3.2 also... 
will do soon.

Zeen,
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Message #10 received at 175604@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@debian.org>

To: Debian Alpha <debian-alpha@lists.debian.org>

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org, 175604@bugs.debian.org, 305329@bugs.debian.org

Subject: HPaq cxx trouble

Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 14:55:22 -0400

retitle 175604 cxx's "compaq" mangling style not supported by binutils
severity 175604 grave
thanks

At some point in the past two years, binutils has stopped supporting the
"compaq" C++ name mangling style.  Therefore, cxx cannot be installed,
and cannot function once installed; this applies to 6.3.9.7-1 currently
in testing and my attempt to update to 6.5.9.31.

Does anyone know how this might be fixed?  I guess an approach is to get
an old binutils which worked and try to generate a patch, but I've no
idea what's involved there...

Thanks,
-Adam
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Message #19 received at 175604@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@debian.org>

To: Carlos Rodrigues <carlos.efr@mail.telepac.pt>

Cc: Debian Alpha <debian-alpha@lists.debian.org>, 175604@bugs.debian.org, 305329@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: HPaq cxx trouble

Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 16:49:46 -0400

On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 12:55 +0100, Carlos Rodrigues wrote:
> Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > retitle 175604 cxx's "compaq" mangling style not supported by binutils
> > severity 175604 grave
> > thanks
> > 
> > At some point in the past two years, binutils has stopped supporting the
> > "compaq" C++ name mangling style.  Therefore, cxx cannot be installed,
> > and cannot function once installed; this applies to 6.3.9.7-1 currently
> > in testing and my attempt to update to 6.5.9.31.
> > 
> > Does anyone know how this might be fixed?  I guess an approach is to get
> > an old binutils which worked and try to generate a patch, but I've no
> > idea what's involved there...
> 
> I don't know if there is something to fix. If GCC's C++ mangling 
> changed, it changed for a reason (not accidentally). This means that 
> CXX's days may be over.

Oh.  The error message made me think that "compaq" might be one of many
mangling styles supported, but it seems not.  Oh well, RIP CXX. :-(

The good news: the CCC .deb now works again (in unstable, will be in
testing by the end of next week).

-Adam
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Message #24 received at 175604@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>

To: 175604@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: cxx's "compaq" mangling style not supported by binutils

Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 21:54:30 -0700

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Hi Adam,

Since the cxx package is now unusable with current binutils, is there any
reason to keep this package around in the archive?

Thanks,
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Message #29 received at 175604@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@debian.org>

To: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>, 175604@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#175604: cxx's "compaq" mangling style not supported by binutils

Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:18:43 -0400

Hello Steve,

Now that you mention it, no, it's not part of sarge but is still part of
woody (since it works there).  Too bad, it was a neat compiler.

Thanks.

On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 21:54 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Hi Adam,
> 
> Since the cxx package is now unusable with current binutils, is there any
> reason to keep this package around in the archive?
> 
> Thanks,
-Adam
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Message #34 received at 175604@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>

To: Adam C Powell IV <hazelsct@debian.org>

Cc: 175604@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#175604: cxx's "compaq" mangling style not supported by binutils

Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 02:22:18 -0700

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clone 175604 -1
reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
severity -1 normal
retitle -1 RM: cxx -- RoM; unusable with current binutils
thanks

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 06:18:43PM -0400, Adam C Powell IV wrote:

> On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 21:54 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > Hi Adam,
> > 
> > Since the cxx package is now unusable with current binutils, is there any
> > reason to keep this package around in the archive?

> Now that you mention it, no, it's not part of sarge but is still part of
> woody (since it works there).  Too bad, it was a neat compiler.

Ok, let's ask for it to be removed then.

Thanks,
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postmodern programmer

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From: Debian Archive Maintenance <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 314228-done@bugs.debian.org

Cc: cxx@packages.debian.org, cxx@packages.qa.debian.org

Subject: Removed cxx from unstable

Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 19:46:53 -0400

We believe that the request you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:

       cxx |  6.3.9.7-3 | source, alpha

Reason: RoM; unusable with current binutils, superseded by ccc

Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
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