Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 10:45:02AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 02:20:48AM +0200, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > The compilers from GCC 4.1 provide now the default compiler for etch
> > for Ada, C, C++, Objc, ObjC++, Fortran95 and for the Java language.
> 
> This means we can't upload linux-2.6 without a change to specify the
> compiler to something else than gcc except if we want to upload 2.6.17
> and go to gcc 4.1 as compiler.

I take it 2.6.16 doesn't compile with gcc 4.1 ? 
If it does, why not bump the ABI and be done with it ?

> My prefered solution is similar to the .kernelrelease file in the source
> tree:
> - Add a file .kernelcompiler.
>   This file specifies CC as used.
> - Or .kerneltoolchain.
>   This file specifies any toolchain setting CC, LD, AS and so on.
> - The setting is used in the headers package to magicaly use the correct
>   compiler.
> - The headers packages needs to depend against the used compiler.

This would indeed be useful, but doesn't preclude a move to gcc 4.1, no ?

Friendly,


Sven Luther