Am Fri, 31 May 2013 13:05:18 +0200 schrieb Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakel...@webdrake.net>:
> Hi all, > > So far when building from source on Ubuntu I've always used the > gcc-snapshot sources. This is a Bad Habit (it's specifically > disallowed by Debian for building actual packages), but was an > effective workaround in the period before GCC 4.8 was released. > > Anyway, now that 4.8 _has_ been released, the question is -- where to > get the appropriate sources? Ubuntu only has GCC 4.7.3 and earlier > in its repositories, gcc-snapshot is now frozen (and probably is best > to avoid if possible anyway). > > It seems best to download sources from the Debian repos as they > should be patched to work with Debian/Ubuntu, but I thought I'd ask > in case anyone has any advice. > > Thanks and best wishes, > > -- Joe As multiarch support is in gcc-4.8 you can compile with the standard gcc sources and it'll work. If you still want the debian patches for other reasons there's a gcc-4.8-source package in debian testing and apt-get source gcc-4.8 might work as well. But it seems those packages are not yet in ubuntu?
