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On Wednesday 27 March 2002 03:14, Preston A. Elder wrote: |
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> Before I start this, I'll introduce myself. |
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> I'm a professional programmer, working in C, C++, Java, Perl, TCL and |
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> shell. I'm qualified to be a professional systems administrator (tho I |
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> do not work in that field right now, just dabble with my 9 systems at |
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> home). I write Magick IRC Services (http://www.magick.tm), and run |
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> GOTH.NET (http://www.goth.net). I also have a few other side-projects. |
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> I've been using GCC 3.0.x since they first came out, and had fairly |
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> good luck with it, however this is the first time I've tried to build |
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> most of my system with it. The way I went about this was to boostrap |
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> gentoo as usual, and then emerge system as usual, however, after I did |
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> the emerge system, the first thing I did was install gcc 3.0.4, so |
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> anything on top of the default system (including any upgrades that may |
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> have come out since install) are built with 3.0.4. |
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Hi, |
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I'm not a member of the system/core team myself, but there are three things I |
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can tell you, just to give you a view of the current gentoo/gcc3 situation: |
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One is, that a few days ago Daniel Robbins posted the following on gentoo-core |
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(the developer-only mailing list): |
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[gentoo-core] gcc3 is happening *after* 1.0 |
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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> (Gentoo Technologies, Inc.) |
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To: gentoo-core@g.o |
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Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:11:22 -0600 |
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Hi All, |
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I just wanted to implore people to *not* focus on getting gcc 3.0 to work, at |
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least not until after Gentoo Linux 1.0. gcc3 is not going to be in 1.0, so |
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any fixes in this area do not help us get closer to the 1.0 release. I'd also |
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ask that people refrain from unnecessarily upgrading core packages, as these |
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kinds of things close to release tend to cause problems. I don't mind the |
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occasional gcc3 fix being added here and there, but I would ask that people |
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don't explicitly try to to a Gentoo 1.0/gcc3 bootstrap, for example. I would |
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much prefer it if you were to test Gentoo 1.0 as-is and focus on fixing and |
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refining issues in it. |
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Again, please put gcc3 aside for now and focus exclusively on fixing |
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outstanding bugs. |
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The second thing is, that some developers *have* been working on getting |
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Gentoo to compile with gcc3, which prompted the above mail. They'll likely go |
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on working on it after the 1.0 release. |
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The third thing is that I believe drobbins intends us to wait a bit longer and |
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go straight to gcc 3.1. I'm not involved in these decisions, this is hearsay |
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so to speak. |
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Dan Armak |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team (KDE) |
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Matan, Israel |
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