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Re: How to keep gcc and such up to date?



On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 12:26:43PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> Unstable has still the -- on powerpc -- rather buggy gcc-2.95.2
> and friends.
> 
> Before, I used Franz's bleeding edge rpms from
> 
>     ftp://dev.linuxppc.org/users/fsirl
> 
> (De-?!)alien-ising works, but with the current tar (1.13) that
> overwrites symlinks, this makes a mess of the /usr/man, /usr/info,
> /usr/doc/*, it breaks dependencies like g++, libstdc++2.10-dev.
> Also, I don't dare upgrading libc6 this way.
> 
> How do the rest of you handle this, or where do you update your gcc,
> gdb and other important stuff from?

2.95.2 is actually fairly stable on powerpc.  There will be 2.96
snapshots available in the near future - mostly when I have a really
good reason to build them, or someone else does :)

Gdb is pretty current at the moment, too - I don't think the CVS has
been hyperactive since the recent release of 5.0...


Dan

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|   Debian GNU/Linux Developer    __    Carnegie Mellon University   |
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