Re: Sparc buildd a cross-compiler?

[Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>]

In message <[🔎] 20011222140741.D30037@blimpo.internal.net>, Ben Collins writes:
>On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 06:54:10PM +0000, Philip Blundell wrote:
>> G++ 2.95 is pretty broken in its own right.  Just because it won't compile
>> something doesn't necessarily mean that the source is at fault.  I wouldn't 
>> regard it as unreasonable for C++ programs to require 3.0 these days.
>
>I don't think it is unreasonable in Debian to require that programs work
>with the default toolset available for the arch.

I disagree.  I think we should just take the stance that packages requiring
gcc-3.0 won't necessarily get built on all architectures for woody.

>2) There are HOWTO's on creating "generic" C++ for gcc-2.95 and gcc-3.0,
>so it compiles on both.

Sure, but upstream maintainers are not necessarily going to want to jump 
through
these hoops.

p.