On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 11:10:54PM -0600, Joel Baker wrote: > Just a quick status update on gcc-3.3 and the various NetBSD ports. > > 1) I'm working on a patch for 3.3; the netbsd-* patches from 3.2 don't > even remotely apply cleanly, due to major changes in the files they modify > (thankfully, said changes are in the direction of increased sanity!) The patch is (almost) done. > 2) Due to the changes from 3.2 -> 3.3, once the i386 stuff works, it SHOULD > work with minimal extra changes for all other cpus. The patch (once done) > is intended to have at least netbsd-alpha and netbsd-sparc stuff in it, > since I have access to someone who can test it on those architectures > (Matthew Garrett). This can only be tested once 3-5 are completed. > 3) Some stuff in rules.conf (the LIBC_DEV stuff, in particular) needs to be > made more general, if netbsd-alpha and netbsd-sparc are to use it properly. > However, given the number of times it's gotton broken in one fashion or > another, I hesitate to muck with this myself, anymore... Talking to Matthias about it. > 4) There appears to be at least one very serious regression; Pascal now > blows up with a build failure. I'm going to look into it. Haven't checked this yet. It's next. > 5) There also appear to be some regressions (or possibly new tests that > just don't work at all) in the testsuite; thankfully, not many. I think. See the attached file; it actually looks better, the 'regressions' are (I *think*) stuff that broke before. If I'm reading the file right. > 6) LIB_SPEC stuff is completely untested, as of yet; I want to fix the > regressions first, before I go mucking with too much of the other stuff. > However, I'll probably try a build with it changed, just to see if it > persists in the 3.2 behavior of blowing up in unbelieveably impressive > ways. This comes after #4. -- Joel Baker <fenton@debian.org>
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