I noticed the other day that a new dependency (MPC) from upstream for gcc4.5
http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.5/changes.html is failing to build on 68k, see m68k at the bottom of this page, says not since gcc 4.3. http://www.multiprecision.org/index.php?prog=mpc&page=platforms http://buildd.debian-ports.org/status/package.php?p=mpclib On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> wrote: > I'll make gcc-4.5 the default for (at least some) architectures within the > next > two weeks before more transitions start. GCC-4.5 is already used as the > default > compiler for almost any other distribution, so there shouldn't be many > surprises > on at least the common architectures. About 50% of the build failures > exposed > by GCC-4.5 are fixed [1]. I didn't see issues on amd64 and i386, armel > (although optimized for a different processor) and powerpc (some object > files > linked into shared libs had to be built as pic). > > As the maintainer file for the ports in GCC is a bit outdated, I'd like to > ask > which architectures should do the switch together with the four > architectures > mentioned above, and which not, and which ones should be better delayed, or > dropped. > > Matthias > > [1] > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=ftbfs-gcc-4.5;users=debian-...@lists.debian.org > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-68k-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d6d9e89.8080...@debian.org > >
