Please update the gcc default to gcc-4.6 on Alpha

Matthias, Gcc-4.6 has been built for at least a couple of months on Alpha and with all the other architectures defaulting to gcc-4.6 maybe it is time Alpha did so too. There are some packages that FTBFS on Alpha (most notably gnustep-base) because the package assumes that gcc-4.6 features are ava

Re: gcc default

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 10:29:36PM +1300, Michael Cree wrote: > (...) Does anyone object to > me requesting the gcc maintainers to default gcc to gcc-4.6 on Alpha? Might as well increase the number of testers, eh? :-) Go for it. Besides, I was beginning to wonder when I could safely reduce the nu

gcc default

gcc defaults to gcc-4.4 on Alpha whereas all other architectures (except m68k and maybe hppa) now default to gcc-4.6. A few packages are failing to build with gcc-4.4 as the package maintainers are starting to exploit gcc-4.6 features. I had intended to do some testing of gcc-4.6 but have never go