Re: [Cooker] 8.2 Beta 1 and compilers
Hi Jason, On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 02:10:05PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I notice from the list of RPMs that the 8.2 beta 1 release has gcc-2.9.6 gcc3.0 and egcs-1.1.2. In addition to making the distribution larger, I would think that distributing multiple compilers complicates support issues. Why ? egcs is only included for backward compatibility issues (I would even have preferred gcc 2.95.3 in Mandrake still being available, at least in contrib, though 2.96 is relatively stable it is a dead-end, never officially supported compiler and 2.95.3 is nowadays still the main compiler for many developers). Are there packages in the Mandrake distribution which can not compile with gcc 3.0? Are there any packages in the Mandrake distribution which still require egcs to compile? Yes there are compatibility issues, especially binary incompatibilities. You would have to recompile the whole distribution and you'd break binary compatibility with redhat packages. I suppose egcs is needed for compat packages and maybe kernel 2.2. Regards, Reinhard -- Software-Engineer, Developer for Embedded Devices Project: Pertergrin, a role playing game system GnuPG Public Key available on request msg52419/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [Cooker] 8.2 Beta 1 and compilers
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I notice from the list of RPMs that the 8.2 beta 1 release has gcc-2.9.6 gcc3.0 and egcs-1.1.2. Are there packages in the Mandrake distribution which can not compile with gcc 3.0? Are there any packages in the Mandrake distribution which still require egcs to compile? kernel22 still needs egcs Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
Re: [Cooker] 8.2 Beta 1 and compilers
For what? It compiles fine with gcc 2.95.3, which I see there's a Cooker package for, and AFAIK, egcs doesn't do pentium optimization. --- Stew Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kernel22 still needs egcs __ Do You Yahoo!? Great stuff seeking new owners in Yahoo! Auctions! http://auctions.yahoo.com
Re: [Cooker] 8.2 Beta 1 and compilers
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, David Walser wrote: For what? It compiles fine with gcc 2.95.3, which I see there's a Cooker package for, and AFAIK, egcs doesn't do pentium optimization. true - but we don't ship an x86 version, 2.95 is there for PPC, as 2.96 has some issues on PPC Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoftOH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/
[Cooker] 8.2 Beta 1 and compilers
I notice from the list of RPMs that the 8.2 beta 1 release has gcc-2.9.6 gcc3.0 and egcs-1.1.2. In addition to making the distribution larger, I would think that distributing multiple compilers complicates support issues. Are there packages in the Mandrake distribution which can not compile with gcc 3.0? Are there any packages in the Mandrake distribution which still require egcs to compile? If anyone has lists which answer either of the above two questions, I would really like to know. Thanks. -Jason _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [Cooker] 8.2 Beta 1 and compilers
On Saturday 26 January 2002 02:10 pm, you wrote: I notice from the list of RPMs that the 8.2 beta 1 release has gcc-2.9.6 gcc3.0 and egcs-1.1.2. In addition to making the distribution larger, I would think that distributing multiple compilers complicates support issues. Are there packages in the Mandrake distribution which can not compile with gcc 3.0? Are there any packages in the Mandrake distribution which still require egcs to compile? Recompiling any C++ package [Qt, kde] with g++3 would break binary compatibility, so I doubt Mandrake would find that acceptable for non-major release.
