From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EhSpf-0004AG-D5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:21:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAUEJoLF006357; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:19:50 GMT Received: from dime82.dizinc.com (dime82.dizinc.com [72.29.73.203] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAUEGc2O011367 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:16:38 GMT Received: from tuxp3 by dime82.dizinc.com with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EhSlE-00031T-Ew for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:16:40 -0500 Received: from 141.149.132.61 ([141.149.132.61]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user tuxp3@leetworks.com) by www.leetworks.com with HTTP; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:16:40 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <1873.141.149.132.61.1133360200.squirrel@www.leetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <1133359566.5990.3.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> References: <20051128142233.GA19195@aerie.halcy0n.com> <200511291501.42275.mike@gaima.co.uk> <1133278747.13876.26.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> <438D2D88.7030004@leetworks.com> <1133359566.5990.3.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 09:16:40 -0500 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86 From: tuxp3@leetworks.com To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - dime82.dizinc.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [32707 32003] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - leetworks.com X-Source: /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/php X-Source-Args: /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/bin/php /usr/local/cpanel/base/3rdparty/squirrelmail/src/compose.php X-Source-Dir: :/base/3rdparty/squirrelmail/src X-Archives-Salt: 231b59d8-404c-4da5-868a-b2f51de1bf45 X-Archives-Hash: 50bb170956af932c28347621f832606f > On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 23:41 -0500, Andrew Muraco wrote: >> 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 ;-) > > 2006.0 is still a ways off, but yes, all of the stages would be built > with gcc 3.4 exclusively. Of course, this would happen whether we made > the change globally (for x86) or if we only did it via profile. The > problem with doing it via profile is we *already have* people on 2005.0 > and 2005.1 profiles running gcc 3.4, so it means causing a much more > disruptive upgrade for all ~x86 users, or anyone who has merged gcc 3.4 > explicitly already. > > -- > Chris Gianelloni > Release Engineering - Strategic Lead > x86 Architecture Team > Games - Developer > Gentoo Linux Again, would anyone know what will happen to ~x86 gcc?, Will it become gcc40 or just use the stable x86 gcc for everyone? (except those who are already playing with gcc40 at their own risk) Tux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list