[arch-dev-public] [signoff] toolchain

[Allan McRae]

Andreas Radke wrote:
> Am Mon, 04 May 2009 23:54:15 +1000
> schrieb Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org>:
>
>   
>> 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
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Urgh.
>
> Please until I've built all OpenOffice packages for the new release.
> They would require massive patching that is not included so far in
> go-oo and the vanilla one. It would take me dozens of hours to start
> build and wait for breakers one by one :S
>
>   

Sure, give me a ping when you are done.

> So please wait a few more days. I hope to build and upload final 3.1.0
> packages within the next 2 or 3 days.
>
> Oh, and shouldn't we rebuild kernel and all modules? Afair we did so
> with gcc4.3.
>   

We should probably wait until glibc-2.10 is released (probably on 
Friday) and use that toolchain rebuild.

Allan