Re: gcc-3.4 upload to unstable
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 07:40:37PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote:
> Quite often there is a catch-22 situation where upstream doesn't accept a
> significant patch because it requires more testing than they have time for,
> and distributions don't accept it because the upstream hasn't done so. Both
> the distributions and the upstream wait for each other and nothing happens.
That's almost certainly true in this case given the wide number of
platforms that GCC is released upon.
> Currently Gentoo is the only serious distribution that's doing SSP.
Adamantix is also using it globally, which I think counts as a
serious distribution!
> If we get more distributions using it then we get more support,
> testing, and debugging for it and increase the chance of it being
> accepted upstream.
Agreed. Enabling it on just a couple of architectures might be
a good compromise, say x86 only. Assuming that works out OK then
alpha, sparc, etc, could be enabled afterwards.
Steve
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