[oi-dev] Compiler migration #2

[Bayard Bell]

Point of fact: we're talking about 4.4.4 being used for the migration.

On 27 Jan 2013, at 05:58, Luca De Pandis <lucadepandis at gmail.com> wrote:

>> For practical purposes, the important
>> thing is to get OI repos to build with *any* relatively recent free
>> compiler (be it GCC or clang).
> From GCC website:
> 3.4.3 November 4, 2004 ---> (~8 years and 9 months ago)
>
> It's not relatively recent. It's paleolithic, man.
>
> The only possible workarounds are build a recent gcc version yourself or use
> SFEgcc package, but the last option is not a viable alternative if your CPU is
> not SSE2-capable.
> So, not every users are able to use that compiler/runtime.
>
> The questions that i asked are:
> 1) Since OI has two default compilers (one for illumos development and one for
> the rest), are there technical reasons that push back oi devs to upgrade gcc?
> 2) Would not it be better for all of us release OI with two compilers, one for
> Illumos development (4.4.4) and one for the rest (latest release)?
>
>
>
> Best regards,
> Luca De Pandis
>
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