On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 23:34 -0700, Bob Palowoda wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 17:45 -0700, Philip Brown
> > wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 04:00:28PM -0700, Erast
> > Benson wrote:
>
> > multiple versions of the same package sounds like a
> > crazy idea to me. It
> > is practically not used. But as I outlined above, it
> > is possible with
> > APT.
> >
> > Me as a user, do not like to have multiple instances
> > of system software
> > unless major versions which offer different feature
> > set, i.e. gcc-3.4
> > gcc-4.0, etc But if multiple versions of gcc are
> > installed I prefer to
> > have a way to configure defaults, and then I tend to
> > use Debian
> > alternatives methods.
> >
>
> Is gcc 4.x a good example? I was under the impression that not all Solaris
> gcc fixes are in the 4.x build tree.
In NexentaOS we forward/back-ported some patches to make gcc-4.0{.3 to
be exact} work OK at least for majority of GNU software stack, i.e.
~12000 packages. But more work needs to be done on this front.
Contributions are much appreciated.
Thanks.
Erast
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