> On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 23:41 -0500, Andrew Muraco wrote: >> Out of curiosity, if this goes into effect before 2006.0 is released, >> then ALL the stages for x86 and the livecd would be built with gcc34? If >> so then I think this may benefit alot of users, especially ones that do >> a stage1/2 just so they can shove gcc34 into there system at an early >> stage. Also, if gcc34 gets moved to x86, would gcc40 be ~x86? This I see >> as a bigger problem for those of us that are already running gcc34. But >> I'm sure many ~x86 users would welcome that, after all what fun is ~x86 >> without some breakage every now and then ;-) > > 2006.0 is still a ways off, but yes, all of the stages would be built > with gcc 3.4 exclusively. Of course, this would happen whether we made > the change globally (for x86) or if we only did it via profile. The > problem with doing it via profile is we *already have* people on 2005.0 > and 2005.1 profiles running gcc 3.4, so it means causing a much more > disruptive upgrade for all ~x86 users, or anyone who has merged gcc 3.4 > explicitly already. > > -- > Chris Gianelloni > Release Engineering - Strategic Lead > x86 Architecture Team > Games - Developer > Gentoo Linux
Again, would anyone know what will happen to ~x86 gcc?, Will it become gcc40 or just use the stable x86 gcc for everyone? (except those who are already playing with gcc40 at their own risk) Tux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
