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

Jordy van Wolferen jordz at archlinux.us
Mon Jun 29 09:20:22 EDT 2009


On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 21:23 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> Biru Ionut schrieb:
> > Jan de Groot wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 19:06 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote:
> >>> Can we kill gcc3 and gcc34 from extra? We used to need them for qemu, 
> >>> but that's fixed, so they're useless. Objections?
> >>
> >> Move it to AUR. We don't need these anymore.
> >>
> > virtualbox recommendation are gcc3.3 or later except for the GCC 4.0.x 
> > series). GCC 4.3.3 is recommended.
> > i've tried to compile with gcc 4.4.0 and is failing.
> > i suggest to move it to community because there are severals packages[1] 
> > that have in makedepends gcc34.
> > 
> > [1] http://dpaste.com/55327/
> 
> If you want this, let this go to aur-general. I am removing the packages 
> from extra now, but I'll leave the PKGBUILDs in SVN trunk for now, so 
> any TU who wants to adopt this or any AUR user who wants to add this can 
> access them.
> 

I adopted it and put it in AUR:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27768



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