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Bart Verwilst wrote: |
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>On Sunday 28 July 2002 07:07, Matthew J. Turk wrote: |
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>|| Recently there's been some (exciting!) talk about moving to GCC 3.1 on the |
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>|| default around the middle of August... |
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>|| With the changes between 3.1 and 3.2, particularly (exclusively?) in the |
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>|| C++ ABI, is this going to help the situation? Or are we currently |
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>|| following the "major" distros like RedHat and Mandrake to preserve compat |
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>|| across the spectrum of distributions? |
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>|| Just curious. :) |
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>Well, we won't be using 3.1 as default, but we'll go to 3.2 straight away.. |
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>Because 3.1 and 3.2 are incompatible again (hopefully for the last time..) |
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>|| mjt |
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>|| Matthew J. Turk <m-turk@×××.edu> ICQ: 3856787 |
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3.2 is labeled by GNU to be 100% multi-vender compliant with the C++ ABI |
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now. Which is the core prob with the new gcc releases. By skipping |
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straight to 3.2 we'll avoid 2 problem transitions.. 1 from 2.95 to 3.1 |
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and then from 3.1/3.1.1 to 3.2 instead we'll have 2.95 to 3.2. As one of |
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the gcc-3.1/gcc-3.2 Gentoo guys I support this plan (was one of the ones |
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calling for it among the devs) and I'm working hard with all the other |
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guys to send upstream patches to developers to make sure their |
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applications are ready for the new gcc-3.2 platform. (this will benefit |
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all distros). |
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Doug Goldstein |
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Developer (Laptops, WiFi, GCC-3.1) |
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Gentoo Linux http://www.gentoo.org/~cardoe/ |