On Sunday 24 April 2005 01:50 am, Willie Wong wrote:
> last I checked, the gcc4 ebuild isn't even hard-masked yet... it
> exists, but that's about it. Don't know if the "gentoo-user" list is
> the best place to ask this question at this moment.
>
Thanks to you and Bastian, I'm coming up to speed on this stuff...
> OTOH, searching around on the gentoo forums, it seems that some
> people are adventurous enough. Some problems they reported:
>
> glibc 2.3.5 does not adhere to gcc4's strictness
> wget won't compile
> openssh won't compile
> e2fsprogs won't compile
> ...and more
>
Yeah, noticed that. I guess this is on hold for systems that have to run...
> There's one gigantic gcc 4.0 thread in the forums, it began life as
> gcc 3.4.0 thread, however, go a bit past half way before you hit the
> 4.0 stuff.
>
Thanks, I'll dig it up.
> to quote "irf2003" whom many on the thread agreed as "the one to
> listen to":
>
> Don't mess ur box up!
> You are on stable, with gcc4 you need to go beyond "~x86".
> Play with it in a chroot.
> The only advantage of gcc4 at this time is that it compiles fast.
> If you want a real boost to your system, go for gcc-3.4.x, you will
> not regret it.
> It's literally like having a hardware upgrade, when one is
> migrating from gcc 3.3.
> Give it a try.
>
Is gcc-3.4.3-20050110-r2 the favored release of 3.4.3?
> HTH,
>
> W
>
It did, thanks guys.
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