[arch-dev-public] [signoff] toolchain

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Mon May 4 09:54:15 EDT 2009


Hi all,

Signoffs are needed for the toolchain gcc-4.4.0 rebuild.  This involves 
the following packages

gcc{,-libs}-4.4.0-1
glibc-2.9-7
bintuils-2.9-7
kernel-headers-2.6.29.1-1

and two new deps for gcc:

ppl-0.10.2-2
cloog-ppl-0.15.3-1


I was going to wait until glibc-2.10 arrived at the end of the week to 
give people time to find fixes for gcc-4.4 issues but there are issues 
with C++ programs compiled with gcc-4.4 running against (or to be more 
precise, not running with) the gcc-4.3 libs.  So not moving the 
toolchain would probably block KDE from moving from [testing].  Also, 
Fedora has done their rebuild using gcc-4.4 for F11 so patches should be 
available for any problems encountered.

Allan





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