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