-frepo in 4.4 snapshot fails

[Edek Pieńkowski]

Edek Pieńkowski wrote:
> Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> 
>> Basically you have to provide enough information for somebody with no
>> access to your system to reproduce the problem.
> 
> I think I would need some advice.
> 
> I tried *.ii files approach, but during recompiling it wants to recompile
> original .cpp files. Is there a way to tell g++ to recompile .ii files 
> during
> -frepo relinking/recompiling? That would be a simple way of getting it 
> done.
> 
> What I did so far:
> I kind of reproduced the error on another system, x86, not x86_64 this 
> time, with latest 4.4 snapshot. I say "kind of", because the type of 
> error is the same, and relates to the same file, ("was assigned to 
> /home/e1/tmp/frepo/trunk/build/obj/util/impl/xml/XmlImplementationFactory.rpo', 
> but was not defined during recompilation, or vice versa"), but the 
> actual symbol is different. It is also a different symbol on x86_64 when 
> I compile with -save-temps than when I compile without -save-temps.
> 
> Then lots of undefined references follow.
> 
> On x86 I'm trying to remove everything unneeded. I am working on 
> removing references to log4cxx, but I think I cannot really remove boost 
> (smart_ptr). Would it be ok to post a bug report and say "you need boost 
> to reproduce (and log4cxx). Just the includes, not the libraries..."? Or 
> should I work on extracting just the needed headers from boost and 
> bundle together what is left?
> 

And is it all worth it, maybe in a snapshot such things are usual?

Thanks,
Edek