Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

[Andrew Muraco]

Chris Gianelloni wrote:

>On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 15:01 +0000, Mike Williams wrote:
>
>
>>On Monday 28 November 2005 14:22, Mark Loeser wrote:
>>
>>
>>>This is basically a heads-up email to everyone to say that we are probably
>>>going to be moving gcc-3.4.4-r1 to stable on x86 very soon.  If any of the
>>>archs that have already done the move from having 3.3 stable to 3.4 could
>>>give us a heads up on what to expect, that would be great.  Only thing I
>>>see as lacking is we might want to get a doc together on how to properly
>>>upgrade your toolchain so we don't get an influx of bugs from users that
>>>have a system half compiled with 3.3 and the other half with 3.4 so they
>>>get linking errors.
>>>
>>>
>>Shouldn't this be a profile thing? i.e. 200{4,5}.X stays at 3.3.X, 2006.X-> go
>>to 3.4.X
>>
>>
>
>Nope.
>
>While it would be possible to limit it to a specific profile, it really
>makes it a pain in the ass, especially for two versions that are almost
>compatible, as opposed to the profiles that we have done in the past
>where we were going from things like gcc2 to gcc3, that were not very
>compatible, at all.
>
>
Out of curiosity, if this goes into effect before 2006.0 is released, 
then ALL the stages for x86 and the livecd would be built with gcc34? If 
so then I think this may benefit alot of users, especially ones that do 
a stage1/2 just so they can shove gcc34 into there system at an early 
stage. Also, if gcc34 gets moved to x86, would gcc40 be ~x86? This I see 
as a bigger problem for those of us that are already running gcc34. But 
I'm sure many ~x86 users would welcome that, after all what fun is ~x86 
without some breakage every now and then ;-)

Greetings,

Tuxp3
Andrew Muraco
www.leetworks.com
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