On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:24:29AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 03:34:47PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > > > >One of the reasons for this rebuild is the update to GCC 4.4. Mingw is > > >still using GCC 4.3, so if this rebuild goes ahead, all the mingw packages > > >will get rebuild with gcc-4.4 but mingw-gcc-4.3 This makes no sense. > > > > > > > I guess I personally don't see why this is a problem, if the MinGW > > upstream is still on gcc 4.3. Cross-compilers are like that. > > The source for our mingw-gcc RPM, is actually the official FSF gcc release > code. We don't use the mingw distributed gcc tar.gz because all their > changes are now upstream. Our general goal in Fedora mingw is to have the > mingw packages match the native versions. This is primarily so we don't > have to mess around re-diffing patches for bug/security updates - we can > just take all the patches from native RPM and apply them
I just built gcc 4.4.0-20090216 which is the same as the version that Fedora is/will be using, using the same patches as Fedora. So far it (the compiler) builds fine. The real test will be what software breaks with the new compiler ... Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-p2v converts physical machines to virtual machines. Boot with a live CD or over the network (PXE) and turn machines into Xen guests. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-p2v _______________________________________________ fedora-mingw mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/fedora-mingw
