Re: Upgrading gcc

Charlie Gibbs <[email protected]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:44:28 GMT
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2026-08-03, Nuno Silva <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2026-08-03, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:05:43 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>
>>> ... Darktable's build.sh still managed to find (and reject) the old
>>> GCC 11.
>>
>> Looking at the package source (on Debian), it looks like Darktable
>> uses CMake to drive its builds. That build.sh is little more than a
>> wrapper around CMake, and in particular it allows you to pass custom
>> options to CMake.
>
> There's no configure script?

There isn't one called "configure", so "./configure" is not an option.
There is, however, a file called ConfigureChecks.cmake. I've an
old-school guy who's comfortable enough with make that I've never
found a reason to get into the complexities of cmake.

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