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Announcing Fedora Core 4 test1

Posted Mar 16, 2005 6:13 UTC (Wed) by dang (subscriber, #310)
Parent article: Announcing Fedora Core 4 test1

I usually wait 'til rc 2 to repoint yum and upgrade, but I want to play a bit with the gcc4 compiled binaries. Anyone ( er..anyone not pimping for other distros ) have early reports on x86 stability. Anyone done any quick tests on the performance of the gcc4 stuff ( or on the stack overflow protection )?

If someone can give me a considered thumbs up or thumbs down I'll toss it on my laptop tomorrow.

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Posted Mar 16, 2005 19:27 UTC (Wed) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

gcc4 is there for Fedora Core 3 already... A 2.6.<something> kernel compiled with it didn't boot, no much more tried here.

Announcing Fedora Core 4 test1

Posted Mar 17, 2005 12:26 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Er, Horst, you know as well as I do that kernels are the last thing one should test the functioning of GCC with :) they depend on sufficiently many non-portable compiler-version-specific things that failures to work might very well be the kernel's fault, not the compiler's.

A lot of other stuff works for me here; I've not built a whole distro with it, but a good few hundred packages (X is core dumping but I think that's due to a broken local patch).