On 10/22/10 8:56 AM, "Wichmann, Mats D" <[email protected]> wrote:

>[email protected] wrote:
>> Em Sexta-feira 22 Outubro 2010, às 17:28:36, Carsten Munk escreveu:
>>> 'A MeeGo compliant distribution MUST use the same tool chain and the
>>> same compiler options as the reference implementation. The tool chain
>>> MAY be patched to solve compiler bugfixes accepted in upstream GCC as
>>> long as they do not break ABI or API' maybe?
>> 
>> Compiling with a different compiler (like RVCT or ICC) is not compliant
>> then? 
>> 
>> The required ABI is clearly GCC's, so any deviation by another toolchain
>> is a bug in that toolchain.
>
>Again, I'm just able to repeat what people have said to me...
>there's nervousness about rebuilding the distribution with
>anything other than what it was originally built and QA'd with.
>Applications are a different story, it should be possible to
>use alternate toolchains there.
I don't think we should forbid the use of other toolchains - but say that
the MeeGo toolchain is recommended and others are allowed (with wording
around the GCC ABI compatibility as Thiago suggests).

-Mark
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