[arch-dev-public] Updating gcc3 package
Does anyone have any problems with me updating the gcc3 package to gcc3.4? It looks like the only packages that depend on it in extra are qemu and kvm-modules. Like tpowa said, kvm doesn't compile with gcc 3.3 but will with gcc 3.4. It seems that qemu doesn't care, just as long as it's not gcc 4. Do any packages depend on gcc 3.3? Jason
Jason Chu schrieb:
Does anyone have any problems with me updating the gcc3 package to gcc3.4? It looks like the only packages that depend on it in extra are qemu and kvm-modules.
kvm-MODULES won't work at all I guess, modules need the same compiler as the kernel.
Like tpowa said, kvm doesn't compile with gcc 3.3 but will with gcc 3.4. It seems that qemu doesn't care, just as long as it's not gcc 4.
Do any packages depend on gcc 3.3?
Jan had some objections against 3.4 when I put gcc3 to extra, you should ask him.
Jason Chu wrote:
Does anyone have any problems with me updating the gcc3 package to gcc3.4? It looks like the only packages that depend on it in extra are qemu and kvm-modules.
Like tpowa said, kvm doesn't compile with gcc 3.3 but will with gcc 3.4. It seems that qemu doesn't care, just as long as it's not gcc 4.
Do any packages depend on gcc 3.3?
Jason
We might consider stuff in community and aur as potential candiates to check for too. Cheers, -G
Think about this: Gcc 4.x is on the same ABI as gcc 3.4, there's lots of file conflicts in that and you'll end up using gcc 4.2 libraries with a gcc 3.4 compiler. Gcc 3.3 is the last released version of the previous C++ ABI and is still maintained AFAIK. A package that requires gcc 3.4 to compile (nothing newer, nothing older) is so broken that upstream should fix it, we shouldn't even bother about it. Even OpenOffice.org got this point improved in the last two years. -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: arch-dev-public-bounces@archlinux.org [mailto:arch-dev-public-bounces@archlinux.org] Namens Jason Chu Verzonden: dinsdag 19 juni 2007 23:30 Aan: arch-dev-public@archlinux.org Onderwerp: [arch-dev-public] Updating gcc3 package Does anyone have any problems with me updating the gcc3 package to gcc3.4? It looks like the only packages that depend on it in extra are qemu and kvm-modules. Like tpowa said, kvm doesn't compile with gcc 3.3 but will with gcc 3.4. It seems that qemu doesn't care, just as long as it's not gcc 4. Do any packages depend on gcc 3.3? Jason
Jan de Groot wrote:
Think about this: Gcc 4.x is on the same ABI as gcc 3.4, there's lots of file conflicts in that and you'll end up using gcc 4.2 libraries with a gcc 3.4 compiler. Gcc 3.3 is the last released version of the previous C++ ABI and is still maintained AFAIK. A package that requires gcc 3.4 to compile (nothing newer, nothing older) is so broken that upstream should fix it, we shouldn't even bother about it. Even OpenOffice.org got this point improved in the last two years.
I agree with Jan that it sounds like this should be fixed upstream quickly, however it might not be that much work to take from the gcc and gcc3 packages to make a separate gcc34 package for the short term. - P
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Alexander Baldeck
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Jan de Groot
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Jason Chu
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Paul Mattal
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Thomas Bächler