[arch-dev-public] [signoff] toolchain

[Tobias Powalowski]

Am Mittwoch 06 Mai 2009 schrieb 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
Nvidia still works here fine, but it's only the module which was built with 
gcc 4.4.0.
With next kernel version i can rebuild everything if you like me to do that.

greetings
tpowa
-- 
Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
http://www.archlinux.org
tpowa at archlinux.org
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