On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:45:21PM +0200, Michael Meyer wrote: > Hi, > now that Steve Langasek has published July 30th as the > toolchain freeze, do you already know if you will > include gcc 4.1 instead of 4.0 as the standard gcc > in etch? If yes, etch could profit from the > ProPolice-like stack smashing protection in gcc 4.1. Let's see it first :) There is currently a transition going on to get GCC 4.0x as the default compiler across all architectures that Debian supports. That takes a long time :( 4.1 is currently in stage 3 - if I'm reading the GCC site properly - which means it will be out round about December??
Chances are good for it to be in for July/August then for Etch freeze. As ever, wait and see :) > If it will be 4.1, will every debian package > automatically be compiled with the SSP in etch? Or is > a certain compile-flag needed to be activated, which > won't be the default in etch? Let's see what SSP breaks in terms of old code _first_ :) > It seems that Redhat will release RHEL 5 in the end of > 2006 with a gcc 4.1 compiler. Ignore Red Hat - they released 2.96, remember, and GCC that couldn't compile a kernel. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 they released with 3.4.x _and_ a pre-release alpha quality snapshot from December 12 2004 for 4.x - fully three months before 4.x was released. If you want cutting edge compilers that just don't work, use Red Hat IMHO. Andy > cheers, > mike. > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail - Jetzt mit 1GB Speicher kostenlos - Hier anmelden: > http://mail.yahoo.de > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
