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Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Gcc 3.0.4 installed system
From:       Bart Verwilst <verwilst () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2002-04-07 10:02:01
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Howdy

Yeah, i think a gentoo-1.0-gcc3.x-ix86.iso would be great!
Ofcourse i'm not the person to make this, not quite my area :o)

And my question still remains, is gcc 3.x slower than gcc 2.95.x? :o)

See ya!

On Sunday 07 April 2002 05:29, Preston A. Elder wrote:
|| Personally, I'd be very interested to know how you did this 'from
|| scratch'.
||
|| I myself have done this from the post-bootstrap (but pre emerge system)
|| stage on, but I cant bootstrap with 3.0.x, why?
||
|| Well, the image the ISO installs has many applications on it, not linked
|| statically (eg. tar, etc) -- compiling gcc3.0.4 works fine, but as soon
|| as it then compiles glibc 2.2.5 and installs it, nothing else works.
||
|| The utilities on the install image look for glibc 2.2.5 compiled with
|| gcc 2.95.x.  So until there is an install image that has statically
|| linked binaries on it, I dont see how a bootstrap can be achieved using
|| 3.0.x compilers.
||
|| I too, however, have installed a 3.0.x based system.  I did the
|| bootstrap on 2.95.3, then first thing after bootstrap, I merged gcc
|| 3.0.4, and then did my emerge system.  As Geert said, a few problems
|| along the way, but not many.  I too made patches for all the problems I
|| found, I submitted them to Geert.  The patches I made are ALL backward
|| compatable to 2.95.3 (I believe, I've not tested this).  But then, I
|| could also have compiled a different package set than he did.
||
|| On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 07:01, Geert Bevin wrote:
|| > Hi all,
|| >
|| > I finally installed 1.0 from scratch and decided to try it out with gcc
|| > 3.0.4 instead of 2.95.3. Along the way I encountered some problems, but
|| > surprisingly little. I've fixed everything that needed fixing and sadly
|| > some packages are backwards incompatible. For that reason and for the
|| > ease of maintenance I've created a dedicated gcc 3 profile.
|| >
|| > So, for those that want to try this out, just link the default-1.0-gcc3
|| > profile instead of default-1.0 to /etc/make.profile. Note that this will
|| > only work for installations from scratch and not for updates since
|| > applications that link against libstdc++ v2 require the libraries of gcc
|| > v2 and not gcc v3.
|| >
|| > There are still some packages that don't compile such as galeon and
|| > openjade, but these will be fixed in a matter of time since I need them
|| > ;-) Feel free to submit fixes too.
|| >
|| > Best regards,
|| >
|| > Geert Bevin
|| > --
|| > Geert Bevin             Uwyn
|| > "Use what you need"     Lambermontlaan 148
|| > http://www.uwyn.com     1030 Brussels
|| > gbevin@uwyn.com         Tel & Fax +32 2 245 41 06
|| >
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|| Thanks,

-- 
Bart Verwilst
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Gent, Belgium

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