I think it would be better to use, for now, a specific version of GCC for Illumos development (4.4.4) and a later version of that for userland tools and other stuff.
Basically, it's the same concept that Illumos and OI have now: GCC 4.4.4 for the kernel and GCC 3.x for the rest. But, instead of use a very very obsolete and (in most cases) useless version (some applications need a recent version of the compiler, i.e. aMule, GNUstep etc.), we could use one of the latest releases. Solaris 11 ships with GCC 4.5 compiler/runtime in their publisher. So, i think it's time to going forward also for Illumos and related distributions. Maintaining an obsolete version of the compiler is not a good thing. Best regards, Luca De Pandis In data sabato 26 gennaio 2013 13:59:40, Adam Števko ha scritto: > Hi Peter, > > On Jan 26, 2013, at 1:01 PM, Peter Tribble <[email protected]> wrote: > > Adam, > > > > Just one question - why gcc44? In other words, why not jump straight > > to gcc 4.7? > > Getting new compiler into oi-build would be nice, but it doesn't solve the > problem with migrating stuff away from Sun Studio. Once, we are sure, that > everything is buildable by GCC 4.4 (which we have already packaged), I have > no doubt that transitioning to newer GCC painless. Correct me if I am > wrong. > > Yes, I know that Illumos has 4.4.4, but that's a custom version > > specific to building Illumos. I think SmartOS has gone to 4.7, > > and for Tribblix I went straight to 4.7.2. > > As I said, I am using GCC 4.4 because it is available. > > Cheers, > > Adam _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
