Re: Gcc-4.2 and tiny GlibC update imminent

On Friday 11 May 2007 15:59:10 René Rebe wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> we are about to prepare for a stable 7.0 branch with a Alpha release
> as soon as possible, to keep out release schedule which lists 7.0.0
> this summer.
> 
> As the 6.0 series comes with gcc-4.1 and glibc-20051128 (nearly 2.5
> just that Mr. Drepper releases tarballs soo late, ...) we had to wait
> slightly for gcc-4.2 release wich is imminent, now. I'm right now testing
> an local update to gcc-4.2.0-rc3 and glibc-2.5 and so far only had
> to fix perl (which is already committed, and was related to their custom
> dependency rule generator script anyway, ...).
> 
> So far the x86 (32bit) live build looks rather good, qt and ExactImage
> as well as arts already built fine. When the whole desktop-live built
> thru and works, I'll commit the updates to open the regression hunting
> season for the 7.0 branch around LinuxTag and the final 7.0.0
> release in July.
> 
> Thanks for attention - yours,

Wow, gcc-4.2 caused way less regressions than any other previous
gcc major update I navigated our source base thru (and yes, I'll never
forget the first gcc-3.0 which really was a time where we all learned
a lot about clean boostrapping of a new, isolated system).

As far as I can see only only perl had to be fixed of the packages in
the desktop package selection - though I fixed some linux-header
related failures (raidtools, wavemon, ...) on-the-way.

The updates are comitted, now:

r24046
        * updated gcc (4.1.2 -> 4.2.0-20070501)
r24047
        * updated glibc (20061002 -> 2.5)
        * updated glibc32 (20061002 -> 2.5)

And will be re-tested on the reference builder. I plan to polish
some warnings and settings of the livecd and spin a 7.0.0-alpha
desktop-kde-livecd early next week.

Yours,

-- 
  René Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin
  http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name

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