On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 11:50:06PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Jack Howarth writes: > > Now that glibc 2.3.1 is in sid, what are the plans > > for the transition to gcc 3.2.1? > > we are waiting for an transition plan. My assumption was Jeff would > propose a transition plan for a _coordinated_ transition of glibc and > gcc. It seems a bit late for that :-(
Well, glibc can be built with gcc-3.2, but the arch still can use gcc-2.95, so organizing things seemed uneeded. > >From my point of view we have to finish the g++ transition plan first > (and if our transition plan is to simply switch and recompile ...). > Using gXX-2.95 to link object code built with gcc-3.2 asks for > trouble: glibc compiled with gcc-3.2 and using gcc-2.95 for the standard compiler has been proven to work. Glibc provides special functionality to cope with this situation. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/
