On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 23:41 -0500, Andrew Muraco wrote: > Out of curiosity, if this goes into effect before 2006.0 is released, > then ALL the stages for x86 and the livecd would be built with gcc34? If > so then I think this may benefit alot of users, especially ones that do > a stage1/2 just so they can shove gcc34 into there system at an early > stage. Also, if gcc34 gets moved to x86, would gcc40 be ~x86? This I see > as a bigger problem for those of us that are already running gcc34. But > I'm sure many ~x86 users would welcome that, after all what fun is ~x86 > without some breakage every now and then ;-)
2006.0 is still a ways off, but yes, all of the stages would be built with gcc 3.4 exclusively. Of course, this would happen whether we made the change globally (for x86) or if we only did it via profile. The problem with doing it via profile is we *already have* people on 2005.0 and 2005.1 profiles running gcc 3.4, so it means causing a much more disruptive upgrade for all ~x86 users, or anyone who has merged gcc 3.4 explicitly already. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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