On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Matthias Klose <[email protected]> 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. > > An email a week ago to debian-{release,ports} [1] didn't show any obvious > blockers, and various test rebuilds don't show at least any internal compiler > errors anymore. > > The Debian archive was rebuilt twice on amd64, once in February, resulting in > bug submissions for GCC and feedback for the porting guide [2], a second time > in > March to file issues for packages failing to build with GCC 4.9 [3]. Another > test rebuild for mips64 didn't show any additional build failures [4]. Another > test rebuild for Ubuntu on amd64, i386, armhf, ppc64el didn't show any other > compiler regressions on these architectures. > > I'll work on fixing the build failures in [3], help is of course appreciated. > Trying to be online on May 16/17 on IRC #debian-toolchain (OFTC) and uploading > packages to the delayed queue. > > Almost all build failures are analysed 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) are > filed [5] [6], and will be filed for 4.8 once 4.9 is the default.
Do you plan make 4.9 the only version of gcc in jessie? > > Matthias > > [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2014/05/msg00086.html > [2] http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.9/porting_to.html > [3] > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=ftbfs-gcc-4.9;[email protected] > [4] https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2014/05/msg00087.html > [5] > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=gcc-4.6-legacy;[email protected] > [6] > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=gcc-4.7-legacy;[email protected] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > -- Yunqiang Su -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/cakcpw6wbhlne-noqodj0b26jod+jfg22h2qbsvs0qu+xep6...@mail.gmail.com
