From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-22 i686) This SRPM file for the NCSA's data format library "HDF5" will compile with gcc-2.95.3, but not with gcc-2.96.69: http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/Swarm/miscSupportSoftware/hdf5-1.4.0-1.src.rpm Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. get my srpm file above 2. rpm -ivh hdf5-1.4.0-1.src.rpm 3. In your SPEC directory, type rpm -ba hdf5-1.4.0.spec Actual Results: compile fails, NCSA staff correctly blame gcc Expected Results: should compile!
You did not specify what exactly it fails on. What I saw is that it fails after dependency making, which is a result of HDF's braindamaged dependency making machinery, when it is build outside of source directory, it works fine and whole make succeeds (ie. cd hdf5-1.4.0 mkdir obj; cd obj CC=gcc ../configure --disable-hsizet --prefix=/usr/local ). What hdf does is that it gets totally foobar if srcdir = ., because then it changes the dependencies with sed 's% $(srcdir)/% $$(srcdir)/%g' so some dependencies look like $(srcdir)usr/include/features.h etc.