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Building the Debian archive with GCC 4.4

Building the Debian archive with GCC 4.4

Posted Sep 16, 2008 18:58 UTC (Tue) by bkoz (guest, #4027)
In reply to: Building the Debian archive with GCC 4.4 by cyrus
Parent article: Building the Debian archive with GCC 4.4

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.


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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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