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. Note that I have just done the change in the SVN, it would be nice if you can upload gcc-defaults. Best regards, Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
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