On Sun, Aug 11, 2002 at 10:19:12PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: > gotom, > Could we possibly hold off on 2.2.5-14 until gcc 3.2 is > officially released? Each debian arch will need to carefully > evaluate what sort of libgcc-compat patches they will need > for building with gcc-3.2. Currently only ppc has its > libgcc-compat patches in glibc-2-2-branch (I think that > ia64 has theirs in only the main trunk of glibc cvs). > Franz Sirl is trying to get a fixup of libgcc symbol versioning > into gcc 3.2. Once that happens he will be pushing revised > libgcc-compat patches into glibc-2-2-branch for ppc. This process > has been a bit hairy as we have tickled a couple of binutils > bugs that HJ Lu just fixed.
It won't happen, I think. No one else is convinced that it matters and GCC 3.2 is now three weeks overdue. I suspect some of the other PPC distributions will adopt it, but if the FSF GCC refuses I will fight to prevent us from picking them up. Gratuitous binary compatibility breaks are _bad_! -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
