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Re: GCC 4.2 transition



On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 11:51:47AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 11:33:01AM +0200, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 10:16 +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > 
> > > Does any port still need to stick with GCC 4.1 for a while?  Feedback
> > > from hppa, mips*, s390, powerpc, amd64, i386 porters doesn't show
> > > objections against the transition.
> > 
> > I have objections :)
> > http://bugs.debian.org/433629
> > Yes, it's pretty odd, but recompiling the whole kernel tree with gcc 4.2
> > causes my usbhid to totally not work.
> 
> I have another objection. I'd like all mozilla security updates to be built
> before gcc 4.2 becomes the default, because they don't build correctly yet,
> and I am (still) waiting for an upstream comment on how to fix it.
> 

On a more general note, I'd like to see xulrunner/nss built and
depending packages[0] built so we can get the fixes into testing easier
before this is started.

Cheers,
Neil
[0] Most of: http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/status/dtsa-candidates
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