enabling link time optimizations in package builds

2022-06-17 Thread Matthias Klose
Link time optimizations are an optimization that helps with a single digit percent number optimizing both for smaller size, and better speed. These optimizations are available for some time now in GCC. Link time optimizations are also at least turned on in other distros like Fedora, OpenSuse

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Bullseye

2020-12-06 Thread Matthias Klose
On 12/1/20 5:02 AM, YunQiang Su wrote: > I am sorry for the later response. >Hi, > > I am an active porter for the following architectures and I intend > to continue this for the lifetime of the Bullseye release (est. end > of 2024): > > For mipsel and mips64el, I > - test most

GCC and binutils plans for bullseye

2020-07-01 Thread Matthias Klose
Debian bullseye will be based on a gcc-10 package taken from the gcc-10 upstream branch, and binutils based on a binutils package taken from the 2.35 branch. I'm planning to make gcc-10 the default after gcc-10 (10.2.0) is available (upstream targets mid July). binutils will be updated before

Same procedure as every year: GCC defaults change (GCC 9)

2019-07-27 Thread Matthias Klose
GCC 9 was released earlier this year, it is now available in Debian testing/unstable. I am planning to do the defaults change in mid August, around the time of the expected first GCC 9 point release (9.2.0). There are only soname changes for rather unused shared libraries (libgo) involved, and

gcc-8 and gcc-9 builds using pgo and lto optimization

2019-07-08 Thread Matthias Klose
The recent gcc-8 and gcc-9 uploads to unstable are now built using pgo and lto optimization. Not on all architectures, see debian/rules.defs. On the plus side the compilers are 7-10% faster, however the build time of the compiler is much longer, adding 10-20 hours. If people feel that this

Re: Hurd-i386 and kfreebsd-{i386,amd64} removal

2019-04-16 Thread Matthias Klose
On 13.04.19 17:01, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 15371 March 1977, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > >>> How is the move to debian-ports supposed to happen? I won't have the >>> time to do anything about it within the 2 weeks. > >> The process to inject all packages to debian-ports is to get all the >> deb,

Re: Arch qualification for buster: call for DSA, Security, toolchain concerns

2018-12-09 Thread Matthias Klose
On 07.07.18 17:24, YunQiang Su wrote: > Niels Thykier 于2018年6月28日周四 上午4:06写道: >> List of concerns for architectures >> == >> >> The following is a summary from the current architecture qualification >> table. >> >> * Concern for ppc64el and s390x: we are dependent

GCC and binutils updates for buster

2018-07-17 Thread Matthias Klose
GCC 8 is available in testing/unstable, and upstream is approaching the first point release. I am planning to make GCC 8 the default at the end of the week (gdc and gccgo already point to GCC 8). Most runtime libraries built from GCC are already used in the version built from GCC 8, so I don't

Re: Enabling PIE by default for Stretch

2016-09-30 Thread Matthias Klose
[CCing porters, please also leave feedback in #835148 for non-release architectures] On 29.09.2016 21:39, Niels Thykier wrote: > Hi, > > As brought up on the meeting last night, I think we should try to go for > PIE by default in Stretch on all release architectures! > * It is a substantial

Re: Porter roll call for Debian Stretch

2016-09-23 Thread Matthias Klose
On 20.09.2016 23:46, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > On 09/20/2016 11:16 PM, Niels Thykier wrote: >>- powerpc: No porter (RM blocker) > > I'd be happy to pick up powerpc to keep it for Stretch. I'm already > maintaining powerpcspe which is very similar to powerpc. No, you are not

The (uncalled for) toolchain maintainers roll call for stretch

2016-09-09 Thread Matthias Klose
While the Debian Release team has some citation about the quality of the toolchain on their status page, it is not one of the release criteria documented by the release team. I'd like to document the status how I do understand it for some of the toolchains available in Debian. I appreciate that

Re: preparing for GCC 4.9

2014-05-13 Thread Matthias Klose
of where to begin. I have a box with gcc-4.9, plenty of disk space, and electricity to burn. Where do I start? Patrick On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Matthias Klose d...@debian.org wrote: With gcc-4.9 now available in testing, it is time to prepare for the change of the default to 4.9

preparing for GCC 4.9

2014-05-08 Thread Matthias Klose
With gcc-4.9 now available in testing, it is time to prepare for the change of the default to 4.9, for a subset of architectures or for all (release) architectures. The defaults for the gdc, gccgo, gcj and gnat frontends already point to 4.9 and are used on all architectures. Issue #746805

Re: Roll call for porters of architectures in sid and testing

2014-01-21 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 16.01.2014 13:31, schrieb Aníbal Monsalve Salazar: For mips/mipsel, I - fix toolchain issues together with other developers at ImgTec It is nice to see such a commitment, however in the past I didn't see any such contributions. Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

gcc-4.9 uploaded to experimental

2014-01-10 Thread Matthias Klose
gcc-4.9 is uploaded to experimental, asking the porters to watch for build failures and corresponding patches. See https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=gcc-4.9suite=experimental These are already fixed in the vcs. - fixed the gospec.c ftbfs on archs without ld.gold - fixed the g++

Re: Bits from the Release Team (Jessie freeze info)

2013-11-07 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 29.10.2013 17:48, schrieb Ian Jackson: (Mind you, I have my doubts about a process which counts people promising to do work - it sets up some rather unfortunate incentives. I guess it's easier to judge and more prospective than a process which attempts to gauge whether the work has been

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-17 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 15.06.2013 03:22, schrieb Stephan Schreiber: GCC-4.8 should become the default on ia64 soon; some other changes are desirable: - The transition of gcc-4.8/libgcc1 to libunwind8. - A removal of the libunwind7 dependency of around 4600 packages on ia64 - when they are updated next time

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-14 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 13.06.2013 21:47, schrieb Thorsten Glaser: Matthias Klose dixit: The Java and D frontends now default to 4.8 on all architectures, the Go frontend stays at 4.7 until 4.8 get the complete Go 1.1 support. I’d like to have gcj at 4.6 in gcc-defaults for m68k please, until the 4.8 one

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-14 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 13.06.2013 16:46, schrieb Steven Chamberlain: Hi, On 13/06/13 13:51, Matthias Klose wrote: GCC 4.8 is now the default on all x86 architectures, and on all ARM architectures (the latter confirmed by the Debian ARM porters). I did not get any feedback from other port maintainers, so

Re: Current and upcoming toolchain changes for jessie

2013-06-13 Thread Matthias Klose
Am 07.05.2013 15:25, schrieb Matthias Klose: The decision when to make GCC 4.8 the default for other architectures is left to the Debian port maintainers. [...] Information on porting to GCC 4.8 from previous versions of GCC can be found in the porting guide http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.8

changing the java default to java7, and dropping java support for some architectures

2013-05-06 Thread Matthias Klose
It's time to change the Java default to java7, and to drop java support on architectures with non-working java7. Patches for the transition to Java7 should be available in the BTS, mostly submitted by James Page. Some may be still lurking around as diffs in Ubuntu packages, apologies for that.

GCC 4.7 is now the default for x86 architectures

2012-05-07 Thread Matthias Klose
GCC 4.7 is now the default for x86 architectures for all frontends except the D frontends, including KFreeBSD and the Hurd. There are still some build failures which need to be addressed. Out of the ~350 bugs filed, more than the half are fixed, another quarter has patches available, and the

targeting GCC 4.7.0 as the wheezy default for some architectures

2012-04-04 Thread Matthias Klose
GCC-4.7 packages are now available in testing and unstable; thanks to Lucas' test rebuild, bug reports are now filed for these ~330 packages which fail to build with the new version [1]. Hints how to address the vast majority of these issues can be found at [2]. I'm planning to work on these

please update patches / investigate build failures for gcc-4.7 snapshot builds

2011-12-18 Thread Matthias Klose
Please have a look at the gcc-4.7 package in experimental, update patches (hurd, kfreebsd, ARM is fixed in svn), and investigate the build failures (currently ia64, but more will appear). Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-amd64-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: GCC-4.5 as the default for (at least some) architectures

2011-04-26 Thread Matthias Klose
On 04/17/2011 09:33 PM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 02:34 +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: I'll make gcc-4.5 the default for (at least some) architectures within the next two weeks before more transitions start. GCC-4.5 is already used as the default compiler for almost any other

Re: GCC-4.5 as the default for (at least some) architectures

2011-04-26 Thread Matthias Klose
On 04/26/2011 05:31 PM, Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: On 26 April 2011 18:03, Matthias Klosed...@debian.org wrote: I'll make GCC 4.6 the default after the release of GCC 4.5.3, expected later this week, at least on amd64, armel, i386 and powerpc. Could you include armhf in the list as well?

Re: GCC-4.5 as the default for (at least some) architectures

2011-04-26 Thread Matthias Klose
On 04/26/2011 09:28 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 08:51:04PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 05:03:01PM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: I'll make GCC 4.6 the default after the release of GCC 4.5.3, expected later this week, at least on amd64, armel, i386

Re: GCC-4.5 as the default for (at least some) architectures

2011-03-02 Thread Matthias Klose
On 02.03.2011 17:54, Martin Guy wrote: On 2 March 2011 02:34, Matthias Klose d...@debian.org wrote: armel (although optimized for a different processor) Hi For which processor (/architecture) is it optimized, and do you mean optimized-for, or only-runs-on? I ask in case this would mean

GCC-4.5 as the default for (at least some) architectures

2011-03-01 Thread Matthias Klose
I'll make gcc-4.5 the default for (at least some) architectures within the next two weeks before more transitions start. GCC-4.5 is already used as the default compiler for almost any other distribution, so there shouldn't be many surprises on at least the common architectures. About 50% of the

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-16 Thread Matthias Klose
On 16.11.2010 10:42, Roger Leigh wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 01:14:09AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: On 14.11.2010 13:19, Julien Cristau wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 15:43:57 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: For wheezy I'm planning to change the linking behaviour for DSOs (turning

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-15 Thread Matthias Klose
On 15.11.2010 07:16, Roland McGrath wrote: mattst88 airlied_, does Fedora use --as-needed by default? Fedora 14 too? airlied_ mattst88: yes The naming of the options makes people easily confused. --no-add-needed is the only option Fedora's gcc passes. yes, OpenSuse is using --as-needed,

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-15 Thread Matthias Klose
On 14.11.2010 16:06, Roger Leigh wrote: While I understand the rationale for --no-copy-dt-needed-entries for preventing encapsulation violations via indirect linking, I don't agree with the use of --as-needed *at all*. If a library has been explicitly linked in, it shouldn't be removed. This

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-15 Thread Matthias Klose
On 14.11.2010 13:19, Julien Cristau wrote: On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 15:43:57 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote: For wheezy I'm planning to change the linking behaviour for DSOs (turning on --as-needed and --no-copy-dt-needed-entries. The rationale is summarized in http://wiki.debian.org/ToolChain

Re: DSO linking changes for wheezy

2010-11-15 Thread Matthias Klose
On 16.11.2010 01:24, Roger Leigh wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:02:57PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: On 14.11.2010 16:06, Roger Leigh wrote: While I understand the rationale for --no-copy-dt-needed-entries for preventing encapsulation violations via indirect linking, I don't agree

any objections from port maintainers to make gcc-4.4 the default?

2009-09-20 Thread Matthias Klose
Besides the open license issue, are there any objections from port maintainers to make GCC-4.4 the default? As a first step that would be a change of the default for C, C++, ObjC, ObjC++ and Fortran. I'm not sure about Java, which show some regressions compared to 4.3. Otoh it's not amymore

OpenJDK Cacao GCJ Java defaults in unstable

2009-03-15 Thread Matthias Klose
Hi, openjdk-6 in unstable is updated to the 6b14 code drop, built from a recent IcedTea snapshot. There are a few regressions in the ports which don't use the hotspot VM, but the Zero VM. Help from porters would be appreciated. There are two new binary packages offering additional JVMs: -

java status on the ports

2008-02-06 Thread Matthias Klose
Besides m68k hopelessly being behind we do have serious problems on alpha, arm and hppa. - on arm, the bytecode compiler (ecj) doesn't produce correct code. there is currently a workaround to build the package on arm using byte-compiled code built on another architecture. Aurelian has

GCC 4.2 transition

2007-07-20 Thread Matthias Klose
The plans for the GCC 4.2 transition were described in http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/06/msg8.html Does any port still need to stick with GCC 4.1 for a while? Feedback from hppa, mips*, s390, powerpc, amd64, i386 porters doesn't show objections against the transition.

Re: Bug#308003: FTBFS: cannot find -lc

2005-05-07 Thread Matthias Klose
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: gcc-4.0 Version: 4.0.0-2 Severity: serious bug reports for unsupported architectures aren't RC. anyway, the libc cannot be found. Please could you check, if applying the following patch succeeds in finding the 32bit libc? --- gcc/config/i386/t-linux64~

Bug#268757: gcc-3.4-doc: x86_64 -march=*, -m64 option documentation needs clarification

2004-11-13 Thread Matthias Klose
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: gcc-3.4-doc Severity: normal http://lists.debian.org/debian-amd64/2004/08/msg00306.html `-m32' `-m64' Generate code for a 32-bit or 64-bit environment. The 32-bit environment sets int, long and pointer to 32 bits and generates code

Re: Bug#260747: removing --enable-final allows successful compilation of arts-1.3.0

2004-08-15 Thread Matthias Klose
the version you cite is not made by the gcc-3.4 package in unstable nor do I see that --enable-final is passed at configure time. Matthias David Dumas writes: I experienced the segfault in mcopidl when compiling arts-1.3.0 with gcc 3.4.1 under debian unstable (amd64). I looked at