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gcc-3.0 packages available for Debian/IA64



I've uploaded experimental gcc-3.0 and supporting binutils packages to
	http://people.debian.org/~tausq/ia64/

They appear to fix some of the issues we've seen with gcc-2.96. However,
at the present time there is no plan to move to gcc-3.0 as the default
compiler toolchain for IA64 for the woody release. This is mostly 
motivated by the fact that other IA64 GNU/Linux distributions out there 
are all running gcc-2.96, and gcc-3.0 is not backward compatible 
with gcc-2.96

In our testing, we have found that gcc-2.96 requires an older
version of binutils (2.10.91.0.2), which is currently supplied as an
ia64-only package. gcc-3.0 works best with a newer binutils, such as
2.11.90.0.24 (currently the default in the unstable distribution)

This means that currently you cannot run both toolchains at the same
time. We hope to find a solution to this problem shortly.

If anyone knows how to make gcc-2.96 work well with latest Debian
binutils, please let us know!

thanks,
randolph
-- 
Debian Developer <tausq@debian.org>
http://www.TauSq.org/

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