On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 2:39 PM, JonY <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 9/15/2010 19:13, Wolfgang Glas wrote:
>> On 2010-09-15 10:50, Ozkan Sezer wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Wolfgang Glas<[email protected]>  
>>> wrote:
>>>>   You might call it packagers' fate, however we have a couple of productive
>>>> packages out there, which build and run very well with gcc-4.4 ;-)
>>>
>>> Out of curiosity, are those packages failing with newer gcc, or are you
>>> just being strict for choosing the compiler version?
>>
>> It took us a hell lot of time to build up a debian repository
>> (http://deb.clazzes.org) with 
>> mingw-w64,zlib,libxml,omniorb,libpng,libtiff,qt4
>> etc. and we're happy that all this stuff plays together well and is stable,
>> where stable means more than having a stable compiler toolchain.
>>
>> So we did not have the time to play with gcc-4.5.x for now. Moreover, it's 
>> not
>> so easy to keep up to date with all the different packaging philosophies out
>> there, we have mingw-w64 snapshots, sezero, TDM, dimitij Ledkovs's debian
>> packaging efforts....
>>
>> ....many ways to get confused :-/
>>
>
> Be warned that gcc 4.x.x-4.5.0 ABI is not compatible with future versions.
>
>  From 4.5.1 and 4.6.x onwards, 64-bit symbols do not have the "_"
> prefix. Binutils CVS (2.20.51 as of writing) is also needed.

My 4.4-based builds have backports of those changes.

>
> As for different builds, the autobuilds are as vanilla as possible
> without any patches,

Hmm, IIRC, a few things were missing in 4.5 as compared to 4.6,
such as lto for x64.  (Nothing crucial, of course.)

>   meant for testing but it is usable.
>
> sezero builds do get some attention from Ozkan, so its mostly OK. I
> can't say much for the other builds though.
>

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