Re: GCC 4.0 as the default GCC / C++ ABI change
On 05.07.05 Matthias Klose (doko@cs.tu-berlin.de) wrote:
Hi,
> With today's dinstall run, new gcc/g++ packages are entering the
> archives and GCC 4.0 is the default gcc/g++. Starting from now,
> please DON'T upload any C++ code, which build-depends on a library
> written in C++ that is not yet converted to the new C++ ABI.
> Details for the C++ ABI change are at the end of the message. How
> do we go on?
>
As Frank already pointed that hits us.
> - Package maintainers must update all their build environments to
> gcc (>= 4:4.0) and g++ (>= 4:4.0).
>
> Each of the three following points can be done in parallel:
>
> - Rebuild C++ applications, which do not depend on any other C++
> library besides libstdc++.
>
So I guess we can do that ASAP. We don't depend on any other ++lib
than libstdc++5. Furthermore I suggest to do that only for 3.0 and
simply neglect 2.0.2. 2.0.2 won't be contained in etch and we don't
provide any C++ libs.
I hope Thomas did a good work and teTeX 3.0 compiles with gcc 4.0.
Regards,
Hilmar
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