[Mageia-dev] ANN: gcc-4.6.2 landing on Cauldron

Tue Jan 3 21:22:27 CET 2012

I'm quoting the whole message just to remind it to others.
+
+W dniu 05.12.2011 15:26, Thomas Backlund pisze:
+> Hi,
+>
+> so... the long wait is over....
+>
+> I've submitted gcc-4.6.2-1.mga2 to core/release now.
+>
+> As soon as it's available on the primary mirror I'll invalidate the 
+> cauldron chroots on the BS to make sure the new gcc is used.
+>
+> Ater that I'll submit a new glibc and kernel so they are built with
+> the new toolchain.
+>
+> So, we now have glibc & the toolchain upgraded:
+> - glibc is at 2.14.1 (available in cauldron since 2011-10-24)
+> - binutils 2.22 (available in cauldron since 2011-11-28)
+> - gcc-4.6.2 (available later today (2011-12-05)
+>
+> Now, in order to provide a very good Mageia 2, every package should
+> be rebuilt with the new toolchain/glibc in order to make sure they
+> still build _and_ work correctly (and flush out any bugs in the
+> toolchain)
+>
+> Now this rebuild should be done preferably in BR order when possible,
+> to rule out bad interaction between packages and be preferably be
+> fully done by alpha3 or beta1 at the latest so we have time to fix
+> it properly for Mageia 2.
+Are we also talking about non-C++ or even plain-text only packages? Does 
+every package means *really every*?
+>
+> -- 
+> Thomas
+
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