From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 18:15:43 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Distributions using gcc 3.2 or later Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:43:39 -0800, Perry Wagle said: Perry> Intel has graciously short-term-loaned me a IA64. Before Perry> Christmas break, I poked around, and all the Linux Perry> distributions for IA64 seemed GCC 2.96 based, except for the Perry> Redhat rawhide distribution. But, testing with alpha-test Perry> distributions makes me nervous that I would be testing much Perry> more than my changes. Now that my compiler modification is Perry> starting to work, I thought I'd poke my head out and ask what Perry> distribution I should use that would expect GCC 3.2 or later? Debian/unstable also uses gcc-3.2. As you'd expect, this version isn't as solid as Debian/stable, but it's definitely usable (I'm running it on my McKinley workstation at work). The main thing is that stuff sometimes breaks temporarily (e.g., it seems the X server broke a couple of days ago), but usually those can be fixed by downgrading to the "stable" version of the package. --david