Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 17:03:18 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: HEADS UP: gcc 4.2 import Message-ID: <20070514210318.GA5865@xor.obsecurity.org>
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--cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline FYI, kan@ is planning to import the gcc 4.2 compiler tomorrow night. This has been through *lots* of testing so it should hopefully be pretty straightforward (as far as major changes go), but there is always the possibility of undetected bugs. It will cause a lot of package builds to fail (about 500-600 depending on architecture). Chances are if you are the maintainer of such a port you have received one or more emails from me about it over the past 6 months. It is not strictly necessary to rebuild your ports after making world with the new compiler, but new binaries may require it since they will be linked to a mixed set of libraries. Besides, the conjunction of symbol versioning, gcc 4.2 and xorg 7.2 means that you'll most likely have to recompile everything anyway - I recommend waiting until the xorg 7.2 import takes place and using precompiled packages when they become available (i.e. portupgrade -faP). We have tried to time the conjunction of these events as best we could to avoid multiple disruptions to -current users, but there will still be a short delay as we wait for more ports committers to test the xorg upgrade before unleashing it on CVS. If you are a ports committer and have not yet reported your build results: we are all waiting for you. ia64 will require some catch-up kernel work to become functional after the import, due to what seems to be missing emulation of some new features used by gcc 4.2. Kris --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGSM5XWry0BWjoQKURAkfcAKDXj94Rq/Aj7A7AB2LfZmvmg3DczwCfdLWN jTfXsm6/9qh2FKr8Lb4ctFg= =F5E+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cNdxnHkX5QqsyA0e--
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