I'm in the same boat as Patrick, except with a PowerMac G5. Please let us know how to begin. Thanks, Dave
> On May 12, 2014, at 16:02, Patrick Baggett <baggett.patr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 >
