On Mon, May 27, 2002 at 01:35:28PM +1000, Simon Wong wrote: > Sluggers, > > I notice that gcc-3.1 has slipped into the debian archives... > > What are people's opinion of this new version? > > My "understanding" is that it is not really stable yet and shouldn't be > used. Is this true?
I bloody well hope not, it's going to be the default very, very soon. :) When 3.0.x was released, the only architectures it was recommended for use on were hppa, ia64, etc; the new architectures that didn't support gcc 2.95.x. With 3.1.x, however, gcc has apparently stabilized, and should be All Good. The latest KDE should build fine on it, HOWEVER you will also have to recompile libqt et al. This is because of massive differences in the C++ linkage etc, which means that for C++ stuff, it's all or nothing wrt gcc 3.1.x. It's also a lot more strict, so it won't tolerate slightly dodgy code that somehow worked on 2.95.x. G'luck! :) d -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://raging.dropbear.id.au KDE Developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.kde.org Kopete: Multi-protocol IM client http://www.kdedevelopers.net/kopete/
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