[oi-dev] Issues pertaining to gcc (for tomorrow's Developer Meeting)

2012-01-16 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
Hello all, gcc is going to be discussed at tomorrow's developer meeting, so I thought I would go over what I find to be the main issues, based on discussion at the last two informal meetings. The main "controversy" seems to be whether OI/Illumian should provide only one gcc, the one used to build

Re: [oi-dev] Issues pertaining to gcc (for tomorrow's Developer Meeting)

2012-01-16 Thread Richard Lowe
> (2) Although illumos-gate can be built with Rich Lowe's gcc, as far as > I know the decision has not been made to actually use gcc to build it > for the first stable release of OI.  I would suggest that doing so > would be a very risky move, because we have so little experience with > a gcc-built

Re: [oi-dev] Issues pertaining to gcc (for tomorrow's Developer Meeting)

2012-01-16 Thread Alex Viskovatoff
On Mon, 2012-01-16 at 18:59 -0500, Richard Lowe wrote: > illumos-gate builds with gcc3. You need the changesets I've not yet > integrated for gcc4. I stand corrected. Sorry. I must say that as far as I can tell, that just strengthens the case against OI's shipping (your) gcc 4.4 but not a relat