Hello Steve, or anyone else affected, Accepted gcc-4.8 into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-4.8/4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.4 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users. If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested and change the tag from verification-needed-trusty to verification-done-trusty. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-trusty. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed. Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance! ** Changed in: gcc-4.8 (Ubuntu Trusty) Status: New => Fix Committed ** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-trusty -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gcc-4.8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1749261 Title: Add amd64/i386 support Status in gcc-4.8 package in Ubuntu: New Status in gcc-4.8 source package in Trusty: Fix Committed Bug description: To mitigate Spectre Variant 2, gcc needs to have retpoline support (-mindirect-branch and -mfunction-return arguments on amd64 and i386). Packages with this will go into the proposed pockets but need to be published in the -security pockets for their respective releases. Patches for gcc-4.8 were pulled from H.J. Lu's backport branch to 4.9, available at https://github.com/hjl-tools/gcc/tree/hjl/indirect/gcc- 4_9-branch/master . Upstream GCC does not seem to be applying patches to anything older than the gcc-6-branch. H.J. Lu is the author of the upstream retpoline commits as well. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-4.8/+bug/1749261/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp