[Swftools-common] Compiling SWFTools by using an alternative compiler

[Pablo Beltran]

Hi,

I'm trying to compile SWFTools on Linux by using an alternative compiler to gcc and I got the following message:

checking build system type... x86_64-pc-none

checking host system type... mips-unknown-elf

checking for mips-unknown-elf-gcc... mips-unknown-elf-gcc

checking whether the C compiler works... yes

checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out

checking for suffix of executables... 

checking whether we are cross compiling... yes

checking for suffix of object files... o

checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes

checking whether mips-unknown-elf-gcc accepts -g... yes

checking for mips-unknown-elf-gcc option to accept ISO C89... unsupported

checking whether we are using the GNU C++ compiler... yes

checking whether mips-unknown-elf-g++ accepts -g... yes

checking whether gcc supports lazy variable declaration... no

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* Your gcc is too old to compile this!

* 

* The last version compileable by this compiler is 

* swftools 0.7.0, which you can download from 

* http://www.swftools.org/swftools-0.7.0.tar.gz 

* .

* Newer versions require at least gcc 3.0.0 

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I've read in this post that any alternative to gcc results in the error above (for clang on Mac OS X Lion):

"Of course the error message is wrong; swftools is just under the mistaken impression that every compiler one might use to compile it is gcc. In this case, we're using clang; clang's version number happens to be lower than gcc's, though it is just as (or more) capable than gcc."

http://trac.macports.org/ticket/32732

How that validation can be bypassed?

Many thanks,

Pablo.