GCC-4.6.0 not ready for prime time?

GCC-4.6.0 not ready for prime time?

[Gary Thomas]

I'm not convinced switching to GCC-4.6.0 is a good choice at this time.
Not only did I have problems getting a working kernel, there are a
lot of applications that don't build with this new compiler.  Some
of those that do, don't work :-(

I have a local recipe to build Mozilla FireFox which has been working
fine, but with GCC-4.6.0, it no longer runs correctly.  Given the magnitude
of FireFox, it may take me a while to figure out why.

Even some core programs no longer build, e.g. web-webkit (I was looking
for an alternate web browser).  This was probably not obvious as it is
no longer being built by your test images (it used to be included in
core-image-sato but was dropped by 9d7aa1090c407ac0da6154c481f1c787fd7efbfc)

I guess I'll be sticking with GCC-4.5.x for now

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Re: GCC-4.6.0 not ready for prime time?

[Khem Raj]

On 06/09/2011 09:50 AM, Gary Thomas wrote:
> I'm not convinced switching to GCC-4.6.0 is a good choice at this time.

at some point we have to and we have time to harden it until next 
release. Compiler upgrades are a bit of work

> Not only did I have problems getting a working kernel, there are a
> lot of applications that don't build with this new compiler. Some
> of those that do, don't work :-(
>
> I have a local recipe to build Mozilla FireFox which has been working
> fine, but with GCC-4.6.0, it no longer runs correctly. Given the magnitude
> of FireFox, it may take me a while to figure out why.

yes there are always some issues that need resolving. If you are able to 
narrow down the problem a bit it would be easier to pin point the problem.

>
> Even some core programs no longer build, e.g. web-webkit (I was looking
> for an alternate web browser). This was probably not obvious as it is
> no longer being built by your test images (it used to be included in
> core-image-sato but was dropped by
> 9d7aa1090c407ac0da6154c481f1c787fd7efbfc)
>
> I guess I'll be sticking with GCC-4.5.x for now
>

For something that you would like to release soon it may be a sane choice

-Khem