Re: Any chance of a rebuilt glibc, a new binutils and a gcc-3.2 for woody?

[James Troup <james@nocrew.org>]

Christian Jönsson <christian@j-son.org> writes:

> As the newely released gcc-3.2 has some major improvements in C++
> common ABI, I was just wondering if we could expect a gcc-3.2 for
> woody.
> 
> If so, the glibc requires a rebuild with a newer binutils, one is just
> recently released off of binutils trunk but from the usual H.J. Lu
> tree.
> 
> This means we would need a new binutils, a rebuild with that newer
> binutils of the glibc and the a build of gcc-3.2...
> 
> Any chance?

For woody?  Nope.  For sarge?  Yep, see debian-devel@ and the proposed
transition plan; the C++ improvements come with a price - ABI
incompatibility.

-- 
James