Well as we speak - im on the verge of grabbing gcc-cvs - the only thing that worries me is that right after i build gcc and start building the system some major bug or regression in 4.0 will be fixed and illl have to basicly start over (its a p2 so its slow)

im going to try and compile with
-march=i686 -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointers

and build as little as possible for the time being - probably nothing graphical anyways

(glibc and some others are first on the list)

as a side note: http://dev.gentoo.org/~halcy0n/ has some gcc-4.0 patched ebuilds for common things which i will be using (glibc and such) to make them work with gcc-4.0 so take a look

Andrew Muraco

James E Wilson wrote:

On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 15:27, Joe Buck wrote:


On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:39:28PM -0800, James E Wilson wrote:


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.



The original message was talking about updating to gcc-4 after the official release. This bit got cut out when I trimmed down the excerpts. The point of my message is that since the official release hasn't occurred yet, and isn't likely to occur for another couple of months, it is too early to speculate about how well gcc-4 will work for end users after the release. There could be significant changes between now and then.

I certainly didn't intend to discourage clueful people from trying to
build a distro with it in the meantime.


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