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. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
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