Re: [gentoo-hardened] NOTICE: GCC 4.3.4 going stable on Hardened

[Gordon Malm <gengor@gentoo.org>]

On Thursday, October 15, 2009 11:10:42 Ed W wrote:
> I'm not actually sure which patches he is referencing, but it's at least
> one other confirmation that 4.4.1 is the best way ahead.
>
> Given we need to bump from 3.4.6, is it perhaps sensible to give a push
> towards 4.4.1 instead?  The logic being whether it actually breaks less
> stuff on average than going to 4.3?
>
> Cheers
>
> Ed W

GCC 4.4.x & hardened gcc + uclibc issues are being worked on by Magnus and 
crew of helpful people (tinhat folks have some representation too ;).  Feel 
free to come by #gentoo-hardened on irc.freenode.net and help hardened/uclibc 
along if you are able to contribute.

I must object to "instead" terminology.  GCC 4.3.x is current stable with the 
rest of Gentoo as well, many other packages still require GCC 4.4.x porting.  

It comes down to perspectives and goals.  Hardened has been active, but 
on "life support" for almost 2 years now.  Due to time+manpower constraints, 
the project has been forced to concentrate on our core which is the more 
mainstream/traditional x86-32 & x86-64 installations.  If you are very 
uclibc/embedded oriented then yeah, its broke (so come help :).

Gordon Malm (gengor)