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Building the Debian archive with GCC 4.4Building the Debian archive with GCC 4.4Posted Sep 16, 2008 0:02 UTC (Tue) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)In reply to: Building the Debian archive with GCC 4.4 by rahulsundaram Parent article: Building the Debian archive with GCC 4.4 I haven't seen anyone other than Martin regularly post reports of the form "we tried to build a complete distro with a bleeding-edge unreleased GCC, here's what happened". In practice, once you can build all of Debian on many platforms, the same's likely to be true of other GNU/Linux distros. It would be useful to get reports like this from the BSD distros; often GCC support under BSD suffers because we don't get as much early testing.
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Building the Debian archive with GCC 4.4 Posted Sep 16, 2008 1:09 UTC (Tue) by cyrus (guest, #36858) [Link]
I think at least the FreeBSD Project decided not to switch to a GPLv3 compiler. Right now, they're sticking with GCC 4.2.x, so it's unlikely that we'll see any report about upcomming GCC versions from them.
Building the Debian archive with GCC 4.4 Posted Sep 16, 2008 3:32 UTC (Tue) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] Any user is free to contribute tests, even if the distro itself chooses (for whatever reason) to stick with an older compiler version.Doing so will make life easier when people change their minds in a couple of years (especially people who need a C++0x compiler).
Building the Debian archive with GCC 4.4 Posted Sep 16, 2008 7:37 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]
hmmm. Got a link to where the FreeBSD folk discussed this or where the decision was announced?
Thanks.
Building the Debian archive with GCC 4.4 Posted Sep 16, 2008 16:41 UTC (Tue) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link]
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Got a link to where the FreeBSD folk discussed this or where the decision was announced? """
A link would be interesting. But talk is cheap. What compiler is currently in the FreeBSD 8 cvs tree?
Building the Debian archive with GCC 4.4 Posted Sep 16, 2008 18:58 UTC (Tue) by bkoz (guest, #4027) [Link]
FWIW, Here's an example of one user (Gerald Pfeifer) testing GCC-head on more-recent FreeBSD (6.3.x).
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-testresults/2008-09/msg01375.html
The GCC team is accepting patches that improve GCC support on new BSDs. I have no visibility into the FreeBSD toolchain discussions.
Building the Debian archive with GCC 4.4 Posted Sep 16, 2008 23:54 UTC (Tue) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link] Gerald's not only a user, he's a long-time GCC developer, SC member and gcc.gnu.org webmaster, and he's been giving the BSDs a lot of love despite working for a Linux-based org during the day.But running GCC's regression test suite, while useful and important, isn't as big a job as using the compiler to build an entire distribution (including ports trees). That's what Martin's been doing for Debian. Volunteers welcome.
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