Simon 'corecode' Schubert schrieb:
>> * gcc 4.x update. gcc 4.1.2 we use at the moment is too buggy - to the
>> point where some projects ignore bugreports at all if gcc-4.1.x is in
>> use (ffmpeg for example). We should decide what path to choose at all
>> with it though. There is several issues with newer gcc's - there is a
>> license issue (newer ones at some point use GPLv3) and gcc 4.3 and up
>> have a more dependencies (do we want all these in the base?).
>
> I don't think we need to care about GPLv3 in the toolchain. I ported
> gcc-4.4 in pkgsrc wip, so if that compiles base well (not sure if Sascha
> did a whole world/kernel run with it), we could import gcc-4.4.
Yes I did. There were some linking errors for LINT if I remember
correctly, but that was it. Never tried running anything, of course. :)
Sascha
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