Re: Use gcc 4.0 to build glibc on all architectures

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 12:00:36AM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> - powerpc is using gcc 3.4, with a few workaround to some bugs
>   (nptl/ppc64 built with -g2). 
>   I have tried to build a glibc (2.3.6) with gcc 4.0, and I am using it
>   for a week now. I haven't found any problem, but I am not able to test
>   the ppc64 version (I only have a 32-bit machine). 
>   Goto, it's seems you decided to switch to gcc-3.4 for powerpc in 
>   version 2.3.5-2. Did you remember why?

I'm pretty sure it was a bug in the 4.0 branch at the time, now fixed.

> - hppa is using gcc 3.4 because of bugs #326581 and #333766. 
>   I have tried to build a glibc with gcc 4.0, and found that bug#333766 
>   is now fixed. As for bug#326581, it is still present, I will try to 
>   fix the problem.
> 
> - m68k is using gcc 3.4. As I don't have such a machine, I will try to
>   contact the glibc porters to get more information.
> 
> - hurd-i386 is using gcc 3.3. I will contact the hurd porters the same
>   way as for m68k.

Great!

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery