Why can't gcc-4.2.1 build usable libreoffice?

[Adrian Chadd]

On 20 February 2013 13:53, Mikhail T. <mi+thun at aldan.algebra.com> wrote:

>> As others have indicated, the toolchain provided in the base system is
>> intended only for building the base system.
> This was never true before and it is rather sad, if it were really
> becoming the truth now. More than likely, though, this is just a cheap
> excuse. Kind of like: "you did not pay for the code, did you, so don't
> expect it to work".

That's because of a mad dash for new C/C++ functionailty post 4.2
which also happened to coincide with a licence change to GPLv3.



Adrian