Richard Guenther writes: > On 10/26/07, Andrew MacLeod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Note that we are building what-becomes-openSUSE 11.0 with current trunk > > > in parallel to 4.2 at the moment, switching to 4.3 is in the next weeks > > > (unless I get pushed back again ;)). > > > > > > > > It would be excellent to have both openSUSE and fedora pounding on 4.3 > > at the same time. > > Yes. I think Ubuntu is on track for 4.3 as well, most likely Debian, too.
Ubuntu did plan the 2008 April release (8.04) with a compiler taken from the 4.2 branch; the main repository is already fixed to build with 4.3 and build tests are run regularily, so a change to 4.3 could be considered. About 5% of the packages needed a change to build with 4.3 (most of them added C++ headers). Debian's next release will be around fall 2008 (or later, when its ready), considering 4.3 as the system compiler, hopefully for all 10+ architectures. Both distributions do not rebuild the archive by default when changing the compiler version, so the new compiler is only used for new package uploads. For previous releases APIs of runtime libraries were changed up to close the release date. This makes it somewhat difficult to already use a prerelease version of the compiler in the distribution (or all packages uploaded between the compiler upload and the upload of a fixed comiler need to be rebuilt, which might be difficult for the slower Debian architectures). Would the GCC developers consider an ABI/API freeze somehwat between beginning of stage3 and the release? Matthias
