GCC 4.7.2 : Get it into DragonFly 3.2 or wait for 3.3 branch?

John Marino dragonflybsd at marino.st
Tue Sep 25 05:34:20 PDT 2012


On 9/25/2012 14:05, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> Will the packages build better with 4.4 or 4.7?
>
> Pierre

Unknown at this time, but there was significant regression in packages 
after moving to gcc 4.4.  I don't expect much regression with 4.7 
because NetBSD uses 4.5 and SunOS and Linux use 4.6 and even 4.7 now so 
others are "blazing the trail" with respect to fixing GCC upgrade 
regressions.

This doesn't concern most users because the default compiler will be 4.4 
until 4.7 is fully tested.  That will take some months and many package 
builds.

John



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