Hi Matthias et al, I'd like to try to do some of this using my sparc box and see how far I get. Is there a link that explains how to set up these steps? Others seem to "just know" what to do, but I haven't the slightest idea of where to begin. I have a box with gcc-4.9, plenty of disk space, and electricity to burn. Where do I start?
Patrick On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> wrote: > With gcc-4.9 now available in testing, it is time to prepare for the > change of > the default to 4.9, for a subset of architectures or for all (release) > architectures. The defaults for the gdc, gccgo, gcj and gnat frontends > already > point to 4.9 and are used on all architectures. Issue #746805 tracks the > gfortran default change, including the change of the Fortran 90 module > version > change. > > The Debian archive was rebuilt twice on amd64, once in February, resulting > in > bug submissions for GCC and feedback for the porting guide [1], a second > time in > March to file issues for packages failing to build with GCC 4.9 [2]. > Another > test rebuild for Ubuntu on amd64, i386, armhf, ppc64el didn't show any > other > compiler regressions on these architectures. > > I would like to see some partial test rebuilds (like buildd or minimal > chroot > packages) for other architectures. Any possibility to setup such a test > rebuild > for some architectures by the porters? Afaics the results for the GCC > testsuite > look okish for every architecture. > > I'll work on fixing the build failures in [2], help is of course > appreciated. > Almost all build failures are analyzed and should be easy to fix > (exceptions > e.g. #746883). Patches for the ones not caused by the Debian packaging > may be > found in distributions already using GCC 4.9 as the default compiler (e.g. > Fedora 21). > > If anything goes well, and a large amount of build failures are fixed, I > plan to > make GCC 4.9 the default for the C/C++/ObjC/Obj-C++ frontends at the end > of May, > beginning of June. > > Bugs reports for packages building with a legacy version of GCC (4.6, 4.7, > 4.8) > will be filed. > > Matthias > > [1] http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/porting_to.html > [2] > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=ftbfs-gcc-4.9;users=debian-...@lists.debian.org > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-ia64-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/536ba1ce.9070...@debian.org > >
