Re: Build quality of TRUNK

Hi,

yes, trunk sometimes has some corner case breakage, which, however,
should usually be easily fixable.

For non-core developers we always recommend to stay on a release
branch.

As I posted the other day, trunk even got some gcc-4.3 fixes and aside
that the GCC-4.3 update is not yet in trunk - due to more restructuring
required - the package meta data (package repository) of trunk would
even build a minimal target without error using GCC-4.3 (though a full
reference build with GCC-4.3 shows some more regressions due to the
nature of the always more strict GCC release - the standard conformace,
however, is IMHO good thing).

We have one ugly regression in trunk, which is that perl does not
cross build anymore since the 5.10 update.

Aside from that Lars comment just a week ago that the overall,
random trunk build quality steadily improved over the last years.

On 22.03.2008, at 17:12, Ray Burkholder wrote:

> I installed a fresh t2-7.0-rc2-minimal-i486.iso and then ran svn co
> http://svn.exactcode.de/t2/trunk t2-trunk.  I did a minimalist  
> config, did a
> download, then started the build.  I had a build error with perl- 
> carp-clan,
> which I was able to fix with an EmergePkg.  I've now got a more  
> complicated
> error with findutils.  Is there an easy fix for this?
>
> Which leads into another question... is Trunk actually buildable,  
> with the
> minimalist, let alone the xorg and more complicated solutions?   
> Should I be
> sticking with svn and v7?
>
> Thanx.

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