Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC 4.1.1 testing/stablization and glibc 2.4

[Donnie Berkholz]

Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> OK, guys, I was speaking with vapier earlier about the possibility of
> getting gcc 4.1.1 stable for the 2006.1 release.  We've managed to build
> some release media with it, and are planning on doing more testing with
> it.  What we really need is for more people to test this on various
> platforms and to get all of the bugs worked out that we can.  We're
> already ramping up our release cycle, and would like to get this
> included, so we don't have to wait until 2007 for a release with >= GCC
> 4.1 in it.

That would be really cool. I'm already been testing both this and the
glibc on the ~1500 packages installed on my x86, plus the Pegasos ppc
and iBook I've got around. I'll do the same on sparc as soon as it shows
up in ~arch there.

> We are also testing glibc 2.4, which will likely go to stable on the
> supporting architectures during the release cycle.  We always welcome
> more testing, though.  =]

Thanks,
Donnie