Am Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:15:08 +1000 schrieb Allan McRae :

Hi all,

The gcc-4.4.0 toolchain rebuild is now in [testing]. Here is a rough ChangeLog:

kernel-headers: - upstream updated (2.6.29.1)

glibc: - update cvs snapshot from 2.9 branch - removed glibc-2.5-localedef_segfault-1.patch (old and appears fixed upstream) - removed glibc-2.7-bz4781.patch (rejected upstream as bug in gcc - Andy: please check if your issue is solved)

Afaik this was the patch to prevent full load with (gcj)java on x86_64 architecture. If openjdk6 is not affected I'm fine with dropping that patch.

- compress info pages - fix info page handling in install script

binutils: - update cvs snapshot from 2.19 branch - remove texinfo dep through install script - add upstream patch to improve -Wl,--as-needed usage - add linker scripts for libbfd.so and libopcodes.so - compress info pages

gcc-libs - new makedepends (ppl and cloog-ppl) - removed unneeded bison build patch - removed treelang (done upstream)

gcc - removals as in gcc-libs - added dependencies on new packages ppl and cloog-ppl (for graphite optimizations) - update libstdc++ man pages - install license exception - compress info pages

I am having great difficultly getting a working gcc-gcj... It builds fine using the gcc-gcj-4.3.x package but when I rebuild eclipse-ecj with the freshly built 4.4.0 package, I can not rebuild gcc-gcj again. Updating eclipse-ecj to the latest build does not fix the issue. After two and a half days of trying to track this down, I am ready to give up. If someone else wants to look at this, go ahead but...

Do we really need gcc-gcj, eclipse-ecj and java-gcj-compat any more? Reason I see for removing it: - I can't get it to build - java-gcj-compat provides java-runtime, but I checked six packages in the repos against this and none actually fully worked - which also is very bad as it is the first package found by pacman for java-runtime - we have a free java now in openjdk6

Opinions?

I'm fine with dropping gcj and compat pkg. Not sure if eclipse-ecj compiler is still needed to build other packages in extra that can't be build with other remaining packages.

Allan

GCC is broken. German website www.heise.de proved new gcc can't compile SPEC suite. See gcc main mailing list. They're working on a fix. Question: Is it safe to build regular packages except kernel/modules in testing with new toolchain and move them later to core/extra before the toolchain moves? -Andy