On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 12:26:43PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Hi List, > > Unstable has still the -- on powerpc -- rather buggy gcc-2.95.2 > and friends. > > Before, I used Franz's bleeding edge rpms from > > ftp://dev.linuxppc.org/users/fsirl > > (De-?!)alien-ising works, but with the current tar (1.13) that > overwrites symlinks, this makes a mess of the /usr/man, /usr/info, > /usr/doc/*, it breaks dependencies like g++, libstdc++2.10-dev. > Also, I don't dare upgrading libc6 this way. > > How do the rest of you handle this, or where do you update your gcc, > gdb and other important stuff from?
2.95.2 is actually fairly stable on powerpc. There will be 2.96 snapshots available in the near future - mostly when I have a really good reason to build them, or someone else does :) Gdb is pretty current at the moment, too - I don't think the CVS has been hyperactive since the recent release of 5.0... Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
