Re: [FYI] Building the whole Debian archive with GCC 4.1: a summary

2006-04-18 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Mark Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-29 14:54]: > > GCC 4.1 itself appears to be very stable, both on MIPS and AMD64. > > Thank you for doing this, and for reporting the results, and for filing > the bugs! I've done the same with a snapshot of GCC 4.2 now on AMD64 (x86_64), and I'm curren

Re: [FYI] Building the whole Debian archive with GCC 4.1: a summary

2006-03-29 Thread Mark Mitchell
Matthias Klose wrote: > Summary: > > GCC 4.1 itself appears to be very stable, both on MIPS and AMD64. Thank you for doing this, and for reporting the results, and for filing the bugs! This is, in my opinion, pretty good news for GCC. Thanks, -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery [EMAIL PROTECTED] (6

Re: Building the whole Debian archive with GCC 4.1: a summary

2006-03-29 Thread René Rebe
Hi, well too bad some news sites pick this mail up as rather bad news for the GCC compiler and project as it. However the opposite is the truth, I'm a long term system integrator contributing to ROCK Linux since 1998 and nowadays leading the T2 SDE fork of it. It is a development environment allo

[FYI] Building the whole Debian archive with GCC 4.1: a summary

2006-03-26 Thread Matthias Klose
Summary: GCC 4.1 itself appears to be very stable, both on MIPS and AMD64. There are, however, a large number of packages using code (especially C++) which GCC 4.1 treats as errors. Fortunately, most of them are trivial to fix. By compiling about 6200 packages, over 500 new bugs have been discov

Building the whole Debian archive with GCC 4.1: a summary

2006-03-25 Thread Martin Michlmayr
Over the last 2.5 weeks I have built the complete Debian archive on a quad-core MIPS machine donated by Broadcom using the recently released version 4.1 of GCC. In parallel, I have done the same on an EM64T box donated to Debian by Intel. The purpose of this exercise was three-fold: - Find out a