Re: gcc-3.4 ready?

["Harald Dunkel" <harald.dunkel@t-online.de>]

Andreas Jochens wrote:
> There has not been any decision whether the pure64/gcc-3.3 archive will
> be dropped in favor the the amd64/gcc-3.4 archive. There are some 300
> packages more available in the pure64/gcc-3.3 archive than in the 
> amd64/gcc-3.4 amd64/gcc-3.4 at the moment (~8300 vs. ~8000 packages).
> I think that the amd64/gcc-3.4 archive will catch up in the next two 
> weeks so that nearly the same number of packages will be available 
> in both archives. However, the amd64/gcc-3.4 archive will still need a 
> few extra gcc-3.4 related fixes compared to the official sid/sarge 
> distribution. These are mostly minor one-line C/C++ standards compliance 
> fixes, but patches to the official packages will be necessary 
> nevertheless for these issues.
>
> As for stability, I am using the packages from the amd64/gcc-3.4 archive 
> myself on three machines (on my main desktop and on two servers) since a
> few weeks without any problems. From my own experience I would say
> that the stability is almost the same as for i386/unstable.

You should mention the sources.list for this. AFAIK its

deb http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/gcc-3.4/ unstable main non-free contrib
deb-src http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/gcc-3.4/ unstable main non-free contrib

Regards

Harri