Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon wrote:

And considering also there might be other yet unknown bugs because of gcc4, it is most likely better to stick to use gcc-3.x, unless there is really no other option.

For cases where no compat-gcc package is provided (like in OpenSUSE) then the following is IMHO the next best approach to force users to get gcc-3.x compiler installed from source just to be able to compile kvm.

This will probably become more of a problem over time. GCC 3 is slated to be removed from the next Debian release: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=440425 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=440430

PS. please let me know what you think about it and if interested so I can provide the 3 patches (or more if more changes are needed) in a [PATCH] series for easy git-am'ing

• if test $check_gcc = "no" ; then
• if gcc -v 2>&1 | grep -q 'gcc *version *4.[0-3].[0-9]'; then

•  echo "#define USE_GCC4 1" >> $config_h
  

• fi
• fi

Something like

#if __GNUC__ >= 4

in the code would be simpler.

-jim