Re: [Fink-devel] ABI Changes: 3.1 -> 3.3

2003-07-01 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Sunday, Jun 29, 2003, at 12:12 US/Eastern, David R. Morrison wrote: What does this imply for our binary distribution? fyi, Debian renamed almost every C++ library package to deal with this one. --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-

Re: [Fink-devel] ABI Changes: 3.1 -> 3.3

2003-06-29 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi Max. There are really two issues here: 1) how do we ensure that our users are using the gcc version we expect? 2) how do we transition from gcc 3.1 to gcc 3.3? I agree that we could do a much better job with #1 than we have in the past. However, at the moment I'm more concerned about #2. Yo

Re: [Fink-devel] ABI Changes: 3.1 -> 3.3

2003-06-28 Thread TheSin
regardless I think this is a great idea and should be implemented even right now in 10.2 On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 02:07 PM, Max Horn wrote: Now, to ensure that really the correct GCC is used, we could insert our own symlinks for gcc into the $PATH during the compile phase - a bit like th

Re: [Fink-devel] ABI Changes: 3.1 -> 3.3

2003-06-28 Thread TheSin
just an idea but while reading this I got an idea I like the fink.conf value but it shouldn't be able to be modded by the user so regarless we set it at bootstrap and in the fink pkg or base-files lets add a util that they can move up that value with, it would then get all the pkgs with a GCC:

[Fink-devel] ABI Changes: 3.1 -> 3.3

2003-06-28 Thread Max Horn
So, how to deal with the ABI changes (again). Let's first see what exactly we have to deal with: 1) We need to ensure that all the C++ code on a system is compiled with the same version of GCC, either 3.1 or 3.3. (exceptions can be made for C++ code which is completely self contained, i.e. whic