Re: Switch default GCC to 4.8 on s390x
On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 03:39:52PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> Am 23.11.2013 13:52, schrieb Aurelien Jarno:
> > On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:44:04AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> >> Am 23.11.2013 03:33, schrieb Aurelien Jarno:
> >>> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 09:09:18AM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> >>>> Am 12.11.2013 15:40, schrieb Aurelien Jarno:
> >>>>> Hi all,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The s390x architecture is still using GCC 4.6 as the default
> >>>>> compiler, while most other architectures have already switched to
> >>>>> GCC 4.8. It starts to cause problem for building packages: some
> >>>>> packages need C11 features to be compiled, while some others assume
> >>>>> the default compiler is already GCC 4.8 (in that case they are
> >>>>> actually buggy). It would also help having the same default version
> >>>>> of GCC than for GCJ, GDC or GFORTRAN.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I therefore propose to switch the default compiler on s390x to GCC
> >>>>> 4.8 by default. It is already used to build the kernel without any
> >>>>> known issue.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Any comments or opinion on that?
> >>>>
> >>>> Is this a commitment from Philipp, Bastian or your side to monitor
> >>>> for s390x specific toolchain issues, forward these upstream and feed
> >>>> these back into Debian?
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>> It is a commitment from my side, although s390x is well tested upstream
> >>> and there is therefore not a lot to do.
> >>
> >> please update debian/README.Debian in gcc-4.8.
> >>
> >
> > Done. That said I still don't understand why only a limited list of
> > architectures have to do that. I do not believe that architectures not
> > listed there are actually better supported in Debian.
>
> It's the other way around. Every architecture should have an entry. But maybe
> it is easier to mention which architectures currently don't have such entries,
> namely sparc, s390, ia64, powerpc, ppc64.
s390 is dead and is still only available for squeeze and wheezy, so it
doesn't matter for jessie and sid.
> x86 should be waived. we do have active contributors for kfreebsd, the hurd,
> m68k, alpha, powerpcspe, mips64, hppa at least.
If they have active contributors, I think they should also be noted
there, otherwise this file is more than useless. Or we should remove
mips and s390x entries.
> arm* is missing here, but it
> is usually taken care of by myself.
Well then why you don't add yourself there? Note that they are a few
worrying bugs on armel like #628063, #697521, #727621 that have not been
forwarded upstream yet.
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