[PyQt] More recent g++ slows build time immensely

[Jim Crowell]

Thanks, Giovanni.
-Jim C.

On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 17:53:01 +0200, "Giovanni Bajo" <rasky at develer.com>
said:
> On 10/20/2008 5:48 PM, Jim Crowell wrote:
> > 
> > However, I'm trying to upgrade to Ubuntu 8.04, which includes g++ 4.2.3.
> > Building the bindings on my Windows machine takes about 35 seconds. On a
> > fairly similar ubuntu machine, I gave up after about _half an hour_.
> > 
> > Has anyone else run into this problem?
> 
> Yes, it's a known bug in GCC 4.2 serie which won't be fixed.:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30052
> 
> Your best bet is to upgrade to GCC 4.3 (which isn't packaged yet in 
> Ubuntu) or downgrade to GCC 4.1 (which is packaged -- but then you have 
> to manually modify the symlink /usr/bin/gcc to point to the correct 
> version).
> -- 
> Giovanni Bajo
> Develer S.r.l.
> http://www.develer.com