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Re: GCC bootstrap failure on ARM
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: GCC bootstrap failure on ARM |
Date: |
Mon, 29 Aug 2016 17:23:03 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:
> David Craven <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> I can help fixing package regressions if someone gets the ball
>> rolling. Is there a reason to upgrade to gcc 5 or does it make sense
>> to jump to gcc 6 directly? If I understand correctly most of the work
>> required for an update to gcc 5 has already been done?
>
> Until the bootstrapping problem on ARM is fixed, we can't do any of
> this. At the moment, that's blocking us from even updating to 4.9.4,
> nevermind 5 or 6. If you want to help us upgrade our default GCC,
> investigating that problem would be the best way.
It might be that fixing bootstrap with GCC 5 (or 6) or ARM wouldn’t be
much harder than with 4.9.
For the record, this is how far I got with GCC 5:
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71399
It’s intimidating, but if several of us give it a try, we may get better
ideas.
Cheers,
Ludo’.