Re: [Fink-devel] gcc-5-5.1.0-1

2015-04-22 Thread Jack Howarth
One last comment on gcc5. As you migrate packages to it, do pay particular attention to their test suites. There is no specific reason to expect regressions but the introduction of the Identical Code Folding (ICF) pass resulted in a major cleanup of the aliasing support in gcc. The result is that a

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc-5-5.1.0-1

2015-04-22 Thread Jack Howarth
I forgot to mention that the other major effect of the new upstream versioning scheme is that now the convenience symlinks are renamed on each major gcc release. Previously we have used the gcc-4/gcc++-4 symlinks in %p/bin for each major release. For the gcc5 package, this will be gcc-5/g++-5 an