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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Installing with GCC 3.0.x
From:       Dan Armak <danarmak () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2002-03-27 16:26:52
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On Wednesday 27 March 2002 03:14, Preston A. Elder wrote:
> Before I start this, I'll introduce myself.
>
> I'm a professional programmer, working in C, C++, Java, Perl, TCL and
> shell.  I'm qualified to be a professional systems administrator (tho I
> do not work in that field right now, just dabble with my 9 systems at
> home).  I write Magick IRC Services (http://www.magick.tm), and run
> GOTH.NET (http://www.goth.net).  I also have a few other side-projects.
>
> I've been  using GCC 3.0.x since they first came out, and had fairly
> good luck with it, however this is the first time I've tried to build
> most of my system with it.  The way I went about this was to boostrap
> gentoo as usual, and then emerge system as usual, however, after I did
> the emerge system, the first thing I did was install gcc 3.0.4, so
> anything on top of the default system (including any upgrades that may
> have come out since install) are built with 3.0.4.
>
Hi,

I'm not a member of the system/core team myself, but there are three things I 
can tell you, just to give you a view of the current gentoo/gcc3 situation:

One is, that a few days ago Daniel Robbins posted the following on gentoo-core 
(the developer-only mailing list):
------------
[gentoo-core] gcc3 is happening *after* 1.0
From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>  (Gentoo Technologies, Inc.)
To: gentoo-core@gentoo.org
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2002 17:11:22 -0600

Hi All,

....
I just wanted to implore people to *not* focus on getting gcc 3.0 to work, at
least not until after Gentoo Linux 1.0.  gcc3 is not going to be in 1.0, so 
any fixes in this area do not help us get closer to the 1.0 release. I'd also 
ask that people refrain from unnecessarily upgrading core packages, as these 
kinds of things close to release tend to cause problems.  I don't mind the 
occasional gcc3 fix being added here and there, but I would ask that people 
don't explicitly try to to a Gentoo 1.0/gcc3 bootstrap, for example.  I would 
much prefer it if you were to test Gentoo 1.0 as-is and focus on fixing and 
refining issues in it.

Again, please put gcc3 aside for now and focus exclusively on fixing
outstanding bugs.
----------------

The second thing is, that some developers *have* been working on getting 
Gentoo to compile with gcc3, which prompted the above mail. They'll likely go 
on working on it after the 1.0 release.

The third thing is that I believe drobbins intends us to wait a bit longer and 
go straight to gcc 3.1. I'm not involved in these decisions, this is hearsay 
so to speak.

-- 
Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team (KDE)
Matan, Israel



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