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From: Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o>
To: Kumba <kumba@g.o>
Cc: Gentoo-Base-System <base-system@g.o>, gentoo-releng@l.g.o, ppc@g.o, alpha@g.o, lanius@g.o, ia64@g.o, sparc@g.o, mips@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-releng] Re: binutils-2.14.90.0.7-r4
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 12:08:49
Message-Id: 1074427923.8472.166.camel@nosferatu.lan
In Reply to: [gentoo-releng] Re: binutils-2.14.90.0.7-r4 by Kumba
1 On Sun, 2004-01-18 at 13:57, Kumba wrote:
2 > Martin Schlemmer wrote:
3 >
4 > > Not sure, but I would like to get gcc-3.3.2-r5 or so in as well. Is
5 > > this still possible ?
6 > >
7 > >
8 > > Thanks,
9 >
10 > I'm building mips stages with gcc-3.3.2-r4. -r5 will not merge on my
11 > Indy, although other mips users (with roughly the same Indy specs I
12 > have) have reported success with that version of gcc. It keeps getting
13 > to a C++ source file in the final stages of gcc's bootstrap, and just
14 > hangs the compile up. Doesn't hang the box, and no error messages or
15 > zombified processes that I can find. Still doing research into the
16 > cause, I'm beginning to think I have something funny going on with the
17 > chroot environment.
18 >
19
20 Even 3.3.2-r4 is fine (and was longer tested), but the point is, we need
21 a 3.3.x out, as there is a _lot_ of pentium4 fixes, as well as others.
22 I will do -r6 in a bit, maybe you can give it a bit of testing on your
23 indy.
24
25 > As for sparc, we've been using the gcc33-sparc64-1.4 profile to test
26 > gcc-3.3.x on sparc. Whether it is safe enough to declare stable, I'll
27 > let Weeve make that call.
28 >
29
30 Ill wait for him then.
31
32 > x86, I've had no problems really. Just we need to get the new etcat
33 > version out because gcc-3.3.2-r5 scans for the @guard symbols, and older
34 > etcat versions do not work with the newer 2.0.50 portage, causing the
35 > ebuild to fail (this has been my experience on sparc64 actually, but I
36 > would not be surprised for this to popup up elsewhere for those who
37 > haven't upgraded gentoolkit yet (like me)).
38 >
39
40 Right, lanius (whoever), any eta on the new etcat?
41
42
43 Also, any definate reasons on the PPC lag in gcc versions? They do not
44 even have 3.3.x in testing ....
45
46
47 Thanks,
48
49 --
50
51 Martin Schlemmer
52 Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
53 Cape Town, South Africa

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Re: [gentoo-releng] Re: binutils-2.14.90.0.7-r4 Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>