[arch-dev-public] [signoff] toolchain

[Dan McGee]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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.

Although if the kernel is using or linking to glibc, we have a
problem. Or we are doing something revolutionary. :)

I would say wait until 2.6.29.3 comes out and just do the rebuild then
(of the kernel and modules).

-Dan