-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Richard Gill wrote: > I saw the development book still use gcc 4.1.2, and the latest gcc is > 4.2.1,
Yeah. Basically, we haven't upgraded because we're trying to get 6.3 out the door. ;-) The issues are that there's a large amount of testing needed for a new gcc version, and that gcc-4.2.1 has some strange differences from 4.1.2 (one of which is the bootstrap thing you mentioned, but another of which is that it either takes forever, or takes a ton of memory, to compile certain files). There is a branch of the book that Jeremy Huntwork is working on (at [1]) that uses this version of gcc, but it has a bunch of other changes too. (Stuff like being able to build a 64-bit-only system, etc.) I suspect we'll end up pulling a lot of stuff from this branch to the real book for 7.0; after 6.3 is out, the /lfs/view/development/ link on the website will probably start to include these updates. See if it lines up with what you came up with. :-) We also have an open ticket for the upgrade to gcc-4.2.1 at [2], so hopefully we don't forget about it. ;-) [1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~jhuntwork/lfs-JH/ [2] http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2002 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGzL0dS5vET1Wea5wRA9V1AKCxeEw3wT38Ct8tp9MI4SCSchmcaQCfdOl1 wQ3W97VQXjr1TiPixOYy0s8= =fEXn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
