Re: Exult

[Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com>]

stevenk@hasnolife.com (Steve Kowalik) writes:

> On Sun, Aug 12, 2001 at 07:31:13PM -0500, Branden Robinson uttered:
> > I thought the only one for which it is the default that we are releasing
> > with woody is hppa.
> >
> And ia64, too, I thought.

No.  We will release ia64 in woody with gcc-2.96 as the default, and gcc-3.0
as an available option.

The 2.96 compiler from a feature standpoint is part-way between the 2.95 stuff
in vogue on i386 and the final 3.0... so some of the updates required for 3.0
are needed for compiling on IA-64, but not all of them.

In general, making packages cleanly compile with gcc-3.0 is a necessary thing,
and has the side effect of fixing most of the issues for IA-64 compilation as
well.

Bdale