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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] New experimental package: gcc4-4.3.0-1


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Brian Dessent wrote:
> Please don't.  gcc isn't special in this regard, it shouldn't receive
> any special treatment.  bash fails without cygintl-8.dll and I don't
> think anyone is proposing to statically link libintl into bash just
> because some people seem to find ways to screw up their installations by
> not installing libintl8.  If there's a problem we need to fix the root
> cause, not paper it over.

Agreed.  BTW, I noticed that gcc builds with static libintl/libiconv
(the standard config.rpath flaw); low priority, but I really don't like
static linking unless absolutely necessary.

> IMHO, despite the above we should still ship shared libstdc++ even if
> it's not the default -- though I would even argue that we should go one
> step farther and make it the default and say that if you need to
> override operator new you select the static libstdc++. 

I admit to know very little about C++; how often would this happen?

> Otherwise, we just get ourselves into ABI compatibility 
> hell because every C++ library gets a copy of libstdc++ linked 
> into it, which means they are tied to the compiler version. 
> As it is now we are going to have to rebuild all
> libstdc++-using code in the distro with the new compiler because up
> until now we had no choice but static libstdc++, but by not stopping
> this insanity now we only prolong it.

Which is the current situation.  YA reason I think that gcc-4.3 should
be limited to release-2, and that everything should be rebuilt with it
for 1.7.

> Should work fine.  Requires explicit --enable-libgomp though (not
> enabled by default.)

I've seen a *small* number of packages using it so far, so it would be
nice to try.  But we'll need autoconf-2.62 as well.


Yaakov
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