[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete Harlan) writes: > What's the future of amd64 compiled with gcc-3.4?
As I see it the sarge-amd64 fork will be gcc-3.3 compiled since gcc-3.4 would need a lot more changes. That means the main sid archive will also stay with gcc-3.3 and follow the normal debian transition to gcc-3.4 over time. Packages can Build-Depend on gcc-3.4 and compile with it in the "normal" pure64 as some packages (like all the mozilla browsers) are already doing. > I don't mean the repository that is currently compiled that way. I > understand that's still missing a few packages and that it's not the > "official" amd64 port, and may never be. Perhaps it's just an > experiment that worked really, really well :) > > On the other hand, obviously at some point the amd64 port will be > compiled with 3.4, and apparently there are technical benefits to > doing so. > > Does anyone have an educated guess as to when amd64 sid will move to > gcc 3.4? A year after sarge? Maybe faster if we agressively write patches and ask for NMUs. > Or whether there will be an upgrade path from the current gcc-3.4 port? > > Thanks, MfG Goswin