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

Jan de Groot jan at jgc.homeip.net
Sun Jun 14 18:51:31 EDT 2009


On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 18:46 -0400, Baho Utot wrote:

> 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

The easy way to fix them is by reporting bugs. Bugfixing most of these
packages is very easy and takes us only a few minutes to fix, so why
bother supporting an old outdated compiler that hasn't been supported
upstream for a long while?



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