Re: GCC 3.0 status?
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 06:26:38PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net> was heard to say:
> Previously Eray Ozkural (exa) wrote:
> > It was announced that gcc 3.0 was released however packages in
> > testing still warn about themselves as "unsupported" prerelease
> > packages. What is the current state of debian gcc packaging? And
> > when can we start using gcc 3.0 to compile stuff? If it's released
> > we should be able to use it, especially for C++.
>
> We can't use it for woody, since switching to g++ 3.0 means breaking
> the ABI and will force us to change to sonames on all C++ libraries.
> You can not link anything you compile with g++-3.0 with C++ libraries
> that are currently in woody/sid.
Is this true? I've been told (wrt aptitude) that "better make sure
it builds with CVS apt and G++ 3, otherwise you won't make it into testing..."
(I think the message ID is
<[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.1010618174110.17764B-100000@wakko.deltatee.com>)
Daniel
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