-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Matthias Klose 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
OK. I will cooperate in ppc64 port as possible as i do, at least, tests of rebuilding the packages of buildd with gcc-4.9. Regards, - -- Hiroyuki Yamamoto A75D B285 7050 4BF9 AEDA 91AC 3A10 59C6 5203 04DC -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJTbXdtAAoJEDoQWcZSAwTcH04P/ixcu5J5qvYu6jgiB4E6NjaQ 6be0mrGI26KYv+h2jJ09+5bgPx4JS/JBlvM9ACK1XHnOGovgTG21CXumPmvwLZ3T ePO54VsyARPgElZ/ZQg8V8rNozxN+sMtQSKZ2F72a6v/xE5ydNHPQpG5/ecewDzY 0LB/Sy+EZoPYQJ9GExWaVLscAjxMLko9GvMwB19Ol48It2UygtXDD0XL+RUiMMWJ tBbwZ+djAVDII1auqroicaeurXEXYrDkYKt5ECxlsJyWP7YaX8h9T9rTNePIxho9 kgDbTW8R4Jcscxzv1rE11fomQeJDft5LqpW0go1tLOjKm4W4N44uC7FI8TdSyART DYVvW3GZJvMroNNATkFJMopEVsPOr5KIAzmmIlqNT1NsBKzfLQGkSZ/yrdpZl2r4 khUMXELPCMkpv1PibvcB/BszH+eP1/AQ/clwk1sRl1oeeyKXiwD3k9WzIq3f+D1+ rMzocwwy9U3gSntubt0cYElWmpb5cYbZELlBNiIE6zyYNZe9e4DC3adjREAkto8j 7fYdmoytih7hX+hJ2iiS8l9mf65uGDG7fyH5+ZL1Q/OZcd7QrrgdfhYR6ravJtcQ KyWX3a0Qud2BRHhkTQQl79rHNkeYnKJtnKkd/63GamznuRXF6qa+UWQ4CJsGMX3C K4deC7n0232ZuW9qj2hq =n4y4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/536d776e.6020...@gmail.com
