On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 12:52:12PM +1100, matthew green wrote: > i really don't know anything about the "lang/gcc" pkg. note that for > netbsd-current, a bunch of platforms have switched to gcc 2.95.3 & > binutils 2.11.2.
Woody is apparantly going to be released with gcc 3.0 for hppa, 2.96 for ia64 and 2.95 for all the others. Post-Woody, there's likely to be a shift towards 3.1 (especially once the Linux kernel is properly compilable with it - there are still sections which miscompile with 3.0). The egcs package is no longer maintained in Debian by the looks of it, but we stand a chance of being able to get patches put into the 2.95 package (a quick glance at the patches in the ports tree seems to suggest that most of them don't screw about with non-NetBSD specific stuff - I don't have a copy of the -current source here to check whether that's the case for the 2.95.3 code). What do people think? Using 2.95 wherever possible might have the advantage of being easier given that patches already exist, but I can't really see them appearing in upstream. Trying to fix the gcc 3 development tree would probably be more rewarding in the long-term (we don't have to bombard the Debian maintainer with as many random patches), which gives me an excuse to become significantly more intimately acquainted with the gcc tree than I currently am :) (right, compile falls over on libobjc when it starts doing stuff with threads. I'll disable that for the moment and come back to it later on) -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
