Point of fact: we're talking about 4.4.4 being used for the migration. On 27 Jan 2013, at 05:58, Luca De Pandis <[email protected]> wrote:
>> For practical purposes, the important >> thing is to get OI repos to build with *any* relatively recent free >> compiler (be it GCC or clang). > From GCC website: > 3.4.3 November 4, 2004 ---> (~8 years and 9 months ago) > > It's not relatively recent. It's paleolithic, man. > > The only possible workarounds are build a recent gcc version yourself or use > SFEgcc package, but the last option is not a viable alternative if your CPU is > not SSE2-capable. > So, not every users are able to use that compiler/runtime. > > The questions that i asked are: > 1) Since OI has two default compilers (one for illumos development and one for > the rest), are there technical reasons that push back oi devs to upgrade gcc? > 2) Would not it be better for all of us release OI with two compilers, one for > Illumos development (4.4.4) and one for the rest (latest release)? > > > > Best regards, > Luca De Pandis > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev
