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Howdy |
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Yeah, i think a gentoo-1.0-gcc3.x-ix86.iso would be great! |
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Ofcourse i'm not the person to make this, not quite my area :o) |
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And my question still remains, is gcc 3.x slower than gcc 2.95.x? :o) |
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See ya! |
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On Sunday 07 April 2002 05:29, Preston A. Elder wrote: |
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|| Personally, I'd be very interested to know how you did this 'from |
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|| scratch'. |
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|| I myself have done this from the post-bootstrap (but pre emerge system) |
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|| stage on, but I cant bootstrap with 3.0.x, why? |
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|| Well, the image the ISO installs has many applications on it, not linked |
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|| statically (eg. tar, etc) -- compiling gcc3.0.4 works fine, but as soon |
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|| as it then compiles glibc 2.2.5 and installs it, nothing else works. |
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|| The utilities on the install image look for glibc 2.2.5 compiled with |
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|| gcc 2.95.x. So until there is an install image that has statically |
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|| linked binaries on it, I dont see how a bootstrap can be achieved using |
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|| 3.0.x compilers. |
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|| I too, however, have installed a 3.0.x based system. I did the |
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|| bootstrap on 2.95.3, then first thing after bootstrap, I merged gcc |
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|| 3.0.4, and then did my emerge system. As Geert said, a few problems |
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|| along the way, but not many. I too made patches for all the problems I |
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|| found, I submitted them to Geert. The patches I made are ALL backward |
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|| compatable to 2.95.3 (I believe, I've not tested this). But then, I |
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|| could also have compiled a different package set than he did. |
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|| On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 07:01, Geert Bevin wrote: |
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|| > Hi all, |
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|| > I finally installed 1.0 from scratch and decided to try it out with gcc |
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|| > 3.0.4 instead of 2.95.3. Along the way I encountered some problems, but |
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|| > surprisingly little. I've fixed everything that needed fixing and sadly |
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|| > some packages are backwards incompatible. For that reason and for the |
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|| > ease of maintenance I've created a dedicated gcc 3 profile. |
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|| > |
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|| > So, for those that want to try this out, just link the default-1.0-gcc3 |
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|| > profile instead of default-1.0 to /etc/make.profile. Note that this will |
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|| > only work for installations from scratch and not for updates since |
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|| > applications that link against libstdc++ v2 require the libraries of gcc |
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|| > v2 and not gcc v3. |
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|| > There are still some packages that don't compile such as galeon and |
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|| > openjade, but these will be fixed in a matter of time since I need them |
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|| > ;-) Feel free to submit fixes too. |
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|| > Best regards, |
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|| > |
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|| > Geert Bevin |
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|| > -- |
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|| > Geert Bevin Uwyn |
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|| > "Use what you need" Lambermontlaan 148 |
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|| > http://www.uwyn.com 1030 Brussels |
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|| > gbevin@××××.com Tel & Fax +32 2 245 41 06 |
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|| > |
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|| > _______________________________________________ |
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|| > gentoo-dev mailing list |
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|| > gentoo-dev@g.o |
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|| > http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev |
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|| Thanks, |
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Bart Verwilst |
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Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team |
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Gent, Belgium |
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