Alexei Khlebnikov writes: > I am faced with a problem: my classes hierarchy is not compiled by G++ 3.0 > Debian prerelease. > I use woody branch and I don't want to switch to sid because I want to have a > somewhat stable system. > > G++ 3.0 Debian prerelease ICEs on my (legal) code. I've wrote a bug report to > GNATS and received an answer that the bug was fixed in the release. So, I > have a > question to Debian GCC maintainers: is there a scheduled date for moving GCC > 3.0 > release to woody branch? If not, how fast it would happen? If unknown, is it > safe to download release from the sid branch and install it through > "apt-cache > add" or manually through "dpkg --install" ? Or I should build it from > sources? > In that unliked case, should I use Debian-provided GCC sources or ones > provided > by gcc.gnu.org ?
it should be ok to install gcc-3.0 from sid, but it depends on some more packages only in sid (newer libc6 and binutils). I don't like the current situation. we have a gcc version in woody that should be removed and version in sid, which doesn't propagate.