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

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Sun Jun 14 20:45:11 EDT 2009


Baho Utot wrote:
> 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 bother supporting an old outdated compiler that hasn't been supported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
>   

Filing a bug report means they will get fixed.  Not telling us about 
them, means they will wait until an update or rebuild is needed.

Allan






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