On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 03:39:52PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > Am 23.11.2013 13:52, schrieb Aurelien Jarno: > > On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:44:04AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > >> Am 23.11.2013 03:33, schrieb Aurelien Jarno: > >>> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 09:09:18AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote: > >>>> Am 12.11.2013 15:40, schrieb Aurelien Jarno: > >>>>> Hi all, > >>>>> > >>>>> The s390x architecture is still using GCC 4.6 as the default > >>>>> compiler, while most other architectures have already switched to > >>>>> GCC 4.8. It starts to cause problem for building packages: some > >>>>> packages need C11 features to be compiled, while some others assume > >>>>> the default compiler is already GCC 4.8 (in that case they are > >>>>> actually buggy). It would also help having the same default version > >>>>> of GCC than for GCJ, GDC or GFORTRAN. > >>>>> > >>>>> I therefore propose to switch the default compiler on s390x to GCC > >>>>> 4.8 by default. It is already used to build the kernel without any > >>>>> known issue. > >>>>> > >>>>> Any comments or opinion on that? > >>>> > >>>> Is this a commitment from Philipp, Bastian or your side to monitor > >>>> for s390x specific toolchain issues, forward these upstream and feed > >>>> these back into Debian? > >>>> > >>> > >>> It is a commitment from my side, although s390x is well tested upstream > >>> and there is therefore not a lot to do. > >> > >> please update debian/README.Debian in gcc-4.8. > >> > > > > Done. That said I still don't understand why only a limited list of > > architectures have to do that. I do not believe that architectures not > > listed there are actually better supported in Debian. > > It's the other way around. Every architecture should have an entry. But maybe > it is easier to mention which architectures currently don't have such entries, > namely sparc, s390, ia64, powerpc, ppc64.
s390 is dead and is still only available for squeeze and wheezy, so it doesn't matter for jessie and sid. > x86 should be waived. we do have active contributors for kfreebsd, the hurd, > m68k, alpha, powerpcspe, mips64, hppa at least. If they have active contributors, I think they should also be noted there, otherwise this file is more than useless. Or we should remove mips and s390x entries. > arm* is missing here, but it > is usually taken care of by myself. Well then why you don't add yourself there? Note that they are a few worrying bugs on armel like #628063, #697521, #727621 that have not been forwarded upstream yet. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-s390-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131123145825.gc20...@hall.aurel32.net