Re: [ANNOUNCE] Git v2.7.4 (and updates to older maintenance tracks)

> On Mar 21, 2016, at 01:41, Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> wrote:
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> [cc:+Torsten]
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> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 01:07:52PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:
>>> On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 11:32 AM, Renato Botelho <garga@freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>> 2.7.4 fails to build on FreeBSD 9.x, that uses by default gcc 4.2.1. I’ve fixed it adding an extra dependency to make force it to require gcc 4.8+. Here is the output:
>>>> 
>>>> combine-diff.c: In function 'diff_tree_combined':
>>>> combine-diff.c:1391: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault: 11
>>> 
>>> Interesting. This appears to be the same bug as [1].
>>> 
>>> [1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/287486/focus=287789
>> 
>> Yes. AFAICT that version of gcc is simply buggy, and we are not doing
>> anything illegal or even particularly exotic. Given how old it is, I'm
>> not sure it's worth worrying too much about it, but I am happy to work
>> around it if somebody can figure out how to do so.
>> 
>> I spent some time trying to bisect gcc, but had trouble getting a
>> working build for a gcc that old.
> 
> I installed FreeBSD 9 and managed to reproduce the compiler crash.
> After a bit of experimentation, I devised a simple work-around and
> submitted it as a patch[1].
> 
> [1]: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/289397