Re: any objections from port maintainers to make gcc-4.4 the default?
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> Please note that building glibc with gcc-4.4 on armel shows an important
> regression, the resulting libc.so.6 is non-PIC. I haven't been able to
> reproduce it with other programs though.
>
> I don't think it should prevent the switch to gcc-4.4, but we should
> probably pay more attention to the binaries built after the switch.
This issue popped up with the Ubuntu toolchain and is being fixed
upstream:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-4.4/+bug/440172
The fixes are getting upstream and should be in binutils 2.20 and gcc
4.5, but I don't know where the 4.4 backport stands; a workaround is to
pass -fno-dwarf2-cfi-asm manually. Matthias tracked down the patches
with upstream and ARM so I would expect they will appear in Debian
pretty soon if they didn't already. (Thanks!)
--
Loïc Minier
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