Randy McMurchy wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm just about finished building the GCC4 branch of LFS which is > (I believe) trunk using GCC-4.0.1. Everyone is by now aware that > there will be difficulties with some BLFS packages using GCC-4.x. > > I am going to begin building BLFS packages using GCC-4.0.1 and I'm > looking for ideas on how to go about making whatever changes might > be necessary to the package instructions available to the community. > > One idea I have is to create a GCC4 branch of BLFS and as packages > are confirmed (or instructions updated to work) they are added into > this branch. The branch would essentially be empty of packages, with > the ones missing having instead a placeholder in place of the real > instructions. We would add real instructions as they are confirmed > to work. This wouldn't take a great deal of time and would not > interfere with trunk. > > This way folks can have access to updated BLFS instructions which > work with GCC-4.x, and we don't have to worry about interfering with > package instructions that use GCC-3.4.x to compile. > > Other suggestions are welcome and appreciated. >
It wil be fine to create a branch for gcc-4.0, but we must also maintain gcc3 instructions. I believe that LFS 6.2 is still going to be gcc3 based. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
