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Re: Moving ARM g77 to g77-3.0



Philip Blundell writes:
> On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 19:27, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > Philip Blundell writes:
> > > On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 17:04, Adam C Powell IV wrote:
> > > > 3.0 fixes this problem, but then maintainers must hand-build using 
> > > > g77-3.0, which is not a viable long-term solution.  I know some arches 
> > > > have 3.0 as their default compiler.  So, what are the criteria, and 
> > > > what's the procedure, for changing the default g77 compiler on ARM from 
> > > > 2.95 to 3.0?  Would we have to switch our C and C++ compilers as well, 
> > > > or can we just switch FORTRAN?
> > > 
> > > I don't think that changing the default versions of gcc and g++ would be
> > > acceptable at this stage in the game.  Switching g77 on its own seems
> > > like a great idea if the packaging supports that.
> > 
> > It's a one-liner in gcc-defaults. Should be limited to g77. I'll leave
> > the decision to Phil and/or debian-arm
> 
> Let's do it.
> 
> I checked a change for this into CVS, but the version of gcc-defaults
> there still seems to be at 0.16.  Do you want me to make an upload based
> on the 0.18 package?

No problem. I'll update the CVS this weekend. Please wait with the
upload until the current version did move to testing (should be in
three days).

	Matthias



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