On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:39:28PM -0800, James E Wilson wrote: > Andrew Muraco wrote: > >After the compiler is installed im going to recompile glibc using gcc > >4.0 and recompile other major parts of the system > > This is probably more trouble than it is worth. gcc-4 won't be fully > ABI compatible with gcc-3.4, and you are likely to find bugs in gcc and > various other packages, as gcc-4 hasn't been used to build a full distro > yet. How much trouble you see will depend on your target, which you > didn't specify.
The Fedora Core 4 people are working on this (building a whole distro with gcc 4); I've seen a bit of blogging about this, but it would be nice if someone would give the gcc list a status report (hint, hint). > Also, it is probably a little early to worry about this, as the gcc-4 > release is probably still 2 months away. While I usually hesitate to disagree with Jim, I will in this case. I *hope* that clueful people will worry about this, so that we can fix as many bugs as possible (or at least come up with some workarounds or warnings) before we ship 4.0. (When I say "clueful people" I'm talking about those who have experience in building distros from source, who won't need hand-holding in the absence of compiler bugs).
