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

Baho Utot baho-utot at columbus.rr.com
Sun Jun 14 19:17:12 EDT 2009


On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 00:51 +0200, Jan de Groot wrote:
> 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 bother supporting an old outdated compiler that hasn't been supported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?
> 
Do you really want a list of all the packages in extra that are broke?

There are lots of them



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