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Maggeych

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Registered: 2013-05-27

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colorgcc stopped working and freezes with no output (perl 5.20)

Hey everyone,

today I noticed that using the perl gcc wrapper "colorgcc" hangs endlessly.
No output whatsoever. I'm not shure this has anything to do with the perl 5.20 upgrade because about 2 weeks ago everything was fine.
Unfortunately I have no knowledge concerning perl so looking through the script myself doesn't really help.

I saw the colorgcc package got updated a few days ago, maybe that broke something?

I already tried the script on another system with the same result. I figured I can't be the only one using colorgcc?

Markus

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Re: colorgcc stopped working and freezes with no output (perl 5.20)

colorgcc breaks more things than it "fixes". I'd suggest using -fdiagnostics-color=auto (or always) if you really want colored output.

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Maggeych

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Registered: 2013-05-27

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Re: colorgcc stopped working and freezes with no output (perl 5.20)

Thank you! I didn't even know about fdiagnostics
I switched to using that now.

Anyway colorgcc still is broken when using the official package.
If this is true for other users than it definitely should be addressed.

maggie

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Registered: 2011-02-12

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Re: colorgcc stopped working and freezes with no output (perl 5.20)

colorgcc breaks more things than it "fixes". I'd suggest using -fdiagnostics-color=auto (or always) if you really want colored output.

Can this work with makepkg? I added it to the CFLAGS in /etc/makepkg.conf but it doesn't show up when I compile.

CFLAGS="-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fstack-protector-strong --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -fdiagnostics-color=always"