Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis: > David Craven <da...@craven.ch> writes: > >> I can help fixing package regressions if someone gets the ball >> rolling. Is there a reason to upgrade to gcc 5 or does it make sense >> to jump to gcc 6 directly? If I understand correctly most of the work >> required for an update to gcc 5 has already been done? > > Until the bootstrapping problem on ARM is fixed, we can't do any of > this. At the moment, that's blocking us from even updating to 4.9.4, > nevermind 5 or 6. If you want to help us upgrade our default GCC, > investigating that problem would be the best way.
It might be that fixing bootstrap with GCC 5 (or 6) or ARM wouldn’t be much harder than with 4.9. For the record, this is how far I got with GCC 5: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71399 It’s intimidating, but if several of us give it a try, we may get better ideas. Cheers, Ludo’.
