[oi-dev] Compiler migration #2

[Bayard Bell]

Folks, what we're talking about here is migrating from Studio to gcc
on a version we already have. Updating to the latest and greatest GCC
can happen subsequent to that.

OI needs people who contribute code a lot more than it needs people
with strong opinions about what someone else should do, so I take Adam
to be owed code review or coded alternatives more than anything else.
I, for one, will respond to the CR request within the next few days.

Cheers,
Bayard

On 26 Jan 2013, at 12:31, Luca De Pandis <lucadepandis at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think it would be better to use, for now, a specific version of GCC for
> Illumos development (4.4.4) and a later version of that for userland tools and
> other stuff.
>
> Basically, it's the same concept that Illumos and OI have now: GCC 4.4.4 for
> the kernel and GCC 3.x for the rest.
> But, instead of use a very very obsolete and (in most cases) useless version
> (some applications need a recent version of the compiler, i.e. aMule, GNUstep
> etc.), we could use one of the latest releases.
>
> Solaris 11 ships with GCC 4.5 compiler/runtime in their publisher.
> So, i think it's time to going forward also for Illumos and related
> distributions.
>
> Maintaining an obsolete version of the compiler is not a good thing.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
> Luca De Pandis
>
>
>
> In data sabato 26 gennaio 2013 13:59:40, Adam Števko ha scritto:
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>> On Jan 26, 2013, at 1:01 PM, Peter Tribble <peter.tribble at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Adam,
>>>
>>> Just one question - why gcc44? In other words, why not jump straight
>>> to gcc 4.7?
>>
>> Getting new compiler into oi-build would be nice, but it doesn't solve the
>> problem with migrating stuff away from Sun Studio. Once, we are sure, that
>> everything is buildable by GCC 4.4 (which we have already packaged), I have
>> no doubt that transitioning to newer GCC painless. Correct me if I am
>> wrong.
>>> Yes, I know that Illumos has 4.4.4, but that's a custom version
>>> specific to building Illumos. I think SmartOS has gone to 4.7,
>>> and for Tribblix I went straight to 4.7.2.
>>
>> As I said, I am using GCC 4.4  because it is available.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Adam
>
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