[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Kill old gcc versions

[Baho Utot]

On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 00:13 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Baho Utot schrieb:
> >         -1 from me 
> >         
> >         
> >         IMHO I would like it to see them stay in extra
> >         
> >         For example : imlib which has errors compiling with gcc-4.4.0
> >         compiles fine with gcc-3.4  
> 
> Every normal package can be fixed to compile with the latest gcc, the 
> right way is always to do that, not to stick to legacy compilers 
> (besides, imlib must have built with 4.3.0, so the issue must be a minor 
> non-standard-compliance in the code).
> 
> qemu was an exception because its code generators relied on the way gcc3 
> generated the code. About virtualbox, it probably suffers from similar 
> problems. But those are special cases - imlib is certainly no reason to 
> keep a legacy compiler.
> 

I have encountered many packages in extra that don't compile with
gcc-4.4.0.  The easy way to fix them is to compile them with gcc-3.4