On Thursday, October 15, 2009 11:10:42 Ed W wrote: > I'm not actually sure which patches he is referencing, but it's at least > one other confirmation that 4.4.1 is the best way ahead. > > Given we need to bump from 3.4.6, is it perhaps sensible to give a push > towards 4.4.1 instead? The logic being whether it actually breaks less > stuff on average than going to 4.3? > > Cheers > > Ed W
GCC 4.4.x & hardened gcc + uclibc issues are being worked on by Magnus and crew of helpful people (tinhat folks have some representation too ;). Feel free to come by #gentoo-hardened on irc.freenode.net and help hardened/uclibc along if you are able to contribute. I must object to "instead" terminology. GCC 4.3.x is current stable with the rest of Gentoo as well, many other packages still require GCC 4.4.x porting. It comes down to perspectives and goals. Hardened has been active, but on "life support" for almost 2 years now. Due to time+manpower constraints, the project has been forced to concentrate on our core which is the more mainstream/traditional x86-32 & x86-64 installations. If you are very uclibc/embedded oriented then yeah, its broke (so come help :). Gordon Malm (gengor)
