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[Flavien Bridault <vlaaad AT sourcemage.org>]

Le samedi 09 décembre 2006 à 19:56 +0100, Pieter Lenaerts a écrit :
> Op zaterdag 09-12-2006 om 08:25 uur [tijdzone -0600], schreef Daniel
> Goller:
> > Well, considering how often we force gcc3.4 we should not be too proud of 
> > being able to use gcc4.1.
> > For what it's worth, what hasn't been forced does play fine with gcc4.1, 
> > and has done so for months.
> > Have nothing to say to glibc2.5, since i haven't touched it.
> > 
> > We could either remove all the forcing of gcc3.4 first, and then 
> > determine which needs 4.1 patches, or test things against 4.0 and 4.1 at 
> > the time we do remove the forcing.
> > There is nothing wrong with 4.1, some code does trigger a few extra 
> > sloppyness indicators that even 4.0 still let's fly, but it's not a lot.
> > 
> > To make things smoother in the future the forcing of gcc version below 
> > what is in test must be discouraged, things do not get fixed that way.
> > This way a rebuild working actually has meaning.
> > 
> > We should move forward with gcc/glibc, and encourage to have the gcc3.4 
> > forcing removed next time people touch a spell that does it. (After 
> > testing it of course.)

This anyway what spell maintainers are supposed to do since the
beginning, right ?? 

> > Upstream might long have fixed what caused the gcc3.4 forcing. If not we 
> > find what other distros might long have in place for that package.
> 
> I don't agree at all.
> 
> It's not our job to fix up code to be ${GCC_VERSION} compatible. gcc34
> forcing is perfectly normal iyam.
> 
> when gcc 4.1 came in the picture, the question was more if we would need
> gcc 4.0 forcing as well as gcc 3.4 forcing.
> 
> maybe we took too long to conclude that gcc4.1 does not pose any major
> problems, but all in all things went far more smoothly with this gcc
> update.
> 
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