On 10/15/07, Ken Mays <maybird1776 at yahoo.com> wrote: > > Mark, > > Any upstream comments to the GCC developers for a patch? Guess this tosses > GCC 4.2.x out the window for now in the toolchain effort. > > So are we saying stick with GCC 3.4.3? > > ~K
I can only speak for myself here, but here's where I see the situation: A little over a year ago, Alexey Starovoytov introduced a proposal for a project called "integrate GCCfss into SFW". This project really entailed two goals: 1) Get GCC 4.x + enhancements into /usr/sfw 2) Modify ON to be buildable by GCC 4.x As it stands today, there is a project existing that shows a lot of work to the first goal, but it would appear the second goal (modify ON) seems to have either stalled or been abandoned. This is the "GCCfss" project -- http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/gccfss-on/. I suspect that at the minimal, #2 would have to be accomplished, and probably #1 as there may have been GCC bug fixes as well. I can't confirm if GCC patches for GCCfss were put upstream in GCC or not -- I can only hope they were proposed at least. I don't have the clout to pick up the "modify ON" football, so I'm inclined to just stick with 3.4.3 for now. I don't see how anyone can build Polaris or onnv-gate with gcc4.x. Even if they could, *I* can't with the sparc hosted build. Honestly, getting Sun LD cross linking was the biggest pain. GCC 4 built with relatively minimal effort. I'm hoping GCC 3 won't be much harder. Sure will miss this, though: http://blogs.sun.com/alexey/date/20070727 Mark -- ------------------------------------------------------ Born to the false world, the wanderer, Storyteller, The Pied Piper On a quest for immortality Gathering a troop to find the fantasy -- Nightwish -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/powerpc-discuss/attachments/20071016/8afb7021/attachment.html>
