On 27/04/12 13:31, Matthias Klose wrote: > I'm now planning to default to GCC 4.7 for amd64 and i386. Should kfreebsd > and > the hurd do change at the same time, or should these stay with 4.6?
Hi Matthias, As long as amd64 and i386 switch too, then I think it would be okay for us to do the same? But I really want to hear confirmation from Robert and/or Christoph. My own reasons for wanting gcc-4.7 would be: keep consistency with amd64/i386; stricter checking of code, which might catch something important for us; hopefully less memory used by the linker. And I think this would be the last chance to do this before the freeze. The most sensitive thing on kFreeBSD would be the kernel. Upstream still builds kfreebsd-8 with gcc-4.4. The Debian kfreebsd packages will ignore the system's default GCC and use gcc-4.6, so a change of default shouldn't be an issue. I tried anyway with gcc-4.7, and src:kfreebsd-9 successfully built a kfreebsd-i386 kernel that seems stable for a few days now. Also the freebsd-utils (essential stuff for kfreebsd-* arches) were okay. I guess upstream has spent a lot of time already fixing up code for Clang/LLVM, which might reduce the impact of switching to gcc-4.7. Regards, -- Steven Chamberlain [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
