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["Jeremy A. Kolb" <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>]

On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, Flavien Bridault wrote:

> Le mardi 05 décembre 2006 à 19:49 +0100, Jaka Kranjc a écrit :
> > On Tuesday 05 December 2006 20:28, Flavien Bridault wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > What is the status of gcc 4.1. I've used it for months and imho it could
> > > go in test. What does actually prevent it to go there ?
> > Does the majority of packages (not already using GCC_VERSION) build with 
> > it? 
> > I'd expect it to be even stricter about code than before ... A good test 
> > would be a succesful sorcery rebuild.
> 
> It's a bit stricter, but not a lot. Almost all spells working with gcc
> 4.0 work with gcc 4.1 and for spell that failed, we used to patch them.
> Anyway we never had the choice because, iirc, the possibility to use
> GCC_VERSION=4.0 has simply never been implemented. 
> Moreover now that gcc 4.1 is the default on most distributions, the
> maintainers of 'active' softwares fixed their sources. 
> But of course a full sorcery rebuild would be better test than just "it
> works for me". ;-)
> 

Just make sure that when the sorcery rebuild fails it's not a GCC problem.

Jeremy