Hi,
It's my task to compile a complete Debian distribution from source. The main goal is to test our version of the GCC compiler, SDE, which is based on 3.4.2, and has more tuning/optimisations for the MIPS architecture. The second goal is to be able to say: "Here is a Debian distribution, compiled with our compiler, and look, it's smaller and faster". A third goal is going to find every single package that wont compile out of the box. So far, I've got a *small* tcsh script, that uses packages from a local source mirror and calls pbuilder. Soon I hope to set up a buildd + sbuild, to keep up with releases. The way I have pbuilder set up is to use one of two chroots, one as default with GCC 3.3, the other has our SDE compiler packaged to look like GCC 3.3. This was the only way I could find to let Debian compile things without using GCC. I understand that the entire point of dependencies is to ensure things just work, but I'm trying to find out where SDE breaks, so the dependencies are impeding me. What do people do when they want to use a later version of GCC? It has to work with apt, for the entire distribution. I could use the /etc/alternatives to redirect /usr/bin/gcc, but then packages like libc6 call gcc-3.3 directly. So yes, I have it set up so this happens: $ gcc-3.3 --version gcc (GCC) 3.4.2 mipssde-6.01.02-pre1-20041214 ... and it's funny also having a binutils that dpkg says is at version 3.3... Now for the crunch: as SDE is based on 3.4.2, all the C++ errors caused by the daily abi change are appearing. For example, see the achilles package: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=258481 I could patch each package as I go, but I really want to know if there is any effort to "migrate" to GCC 3.4, as there a lot more c++ packages with similarly cryptic errors. So in my effort to compile Debian, is there anything else you think I should know? Thanks, Laurence -- Laurence Darby MIPS Technologies (UK) The Fruit Farm +44 (0)1223 706210 Ely Road, Chittering www.mips.com Cambs, CB5 9PH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
