From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-pz0-f48.google.com (mail-pz0-f48.google.com [209.85.210.48]) by mx1.pokylinux.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6E6D4C800A4 for ; Thu, 9 Jun 2011 17:55:03 -0500 (CDT) Authentication-Results: mx1.pokylinux.org; dkim=pass (1024-bit key; insecure key) header.i=@gmail.com; x-dkim-adsp=none (insecure policy) Received: by pzk10 with SMTP id 10so1344716pzk.35 for ; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:55:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=b7HqU5N7e9eLrafGaYNv24gxbs29SBq+Ja2tFfsJjF0=; b=g2lhDPh9SlttZGWwPMMzWMpkifpyLQg8UBTndhADuMXdy9ww45iMAm1E0D09Spfg3w tAze71dt27I5wMpnA5yq+2jZoOJkpAtH3F+smJlP/1Fw/805EPjjEX8xfQGpKYZKQaAs CZpv7ErFquHWv+a88a6uU1+bRt7Mr2xhR4cGw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=HcRiHK2+ZCBVOpvB+EZJanMxtfbSXKh2ILZN/em8Y100DNjsq1KtBMN9tLeeBTI1ZN AqXkLI09X0KKw5idFm1iU1dH9z08Z7dOktqHrrRSDBD8UOgcpWyEIbaRkymwWU+Pvg6A qWqI+PjoKlgUeh9xY2fFr/NmEWR148ZCWOA0E= Received: by 10.143.92.21 with SMTP id u21mr280769wfl.399.1307660103174; Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:55:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.70] (99-57-141-118.lightspeed.sntcca.sbcglobal.net [99.57.141.118]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z32sm162855wfl.23.2011.06.09.15.55.01 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:55:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DF14F43.4020904@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 15:54:59 -0700 From: Khem Raj User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110516 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: poky@yoctoproject.org References: <4DF0F9E7.6020806@mlbassoc.com> In-Reply-To: <4DF0F9E7.6020806@mlbassoc.com> Subject: Re: GCC-4.6.0 not ready for prime time? X-BeenThere: poky@yoctoproject.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: Poky build system developer discussion List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 22:55:04 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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