On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 14:51:43 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: > Am 07.05.2013 15:25, schrieb Matthias Klose: > > The decision when to make GCC 4.8 the default for other architectures is > > left to the Debian port maintainers. > [...] > > Information on porting to GCC 4.8 from previous versions of GCC can be > > found in the porting guide http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8/porting_to.html > > > > It is planned to only keep GCC 4.8 and the upcoming GCC 4.9, and to remove > > 4.4, 4.6 and 4.7 from jessie. > > GCC 4.8 is now the default on all x86 architectures, and on all ARM > architectures (the latter confirmed by the Debian ARM porters). I did not get > any feedback from other port maintainers, so unless this does change and port > maintainers get involved with toolchain maintenance, the architectures staying > at 4.6 or 4.7 shouldn't be considered for a successful release > (re-)qualification. > FWIW, it looks like current glib2.0 is miscompiled on sparc with gcc-4.6, and the issue goes away with 4.8.
Cheers, Julien
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