[Debian-coldfire-devel] Re: Creation of #debian-68k on irc.debian.org (OFTC)

[Christian T. Steigies]

On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:18:48AM +0200, Ingo Juergensmann wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2006 at 10:00:32AM +0200, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> 
> > BTW the kernel team(?) decided that we use gcc-4.0 now for all arches, I am
> > not sure if that works for m68k, did anybody build a kernel with gcc-4
> > already?
> 
> Why gcc-4.0 when 4.1 is now the default?

>>> It will be hardcoded to -4.0 with the next upload. And no, going to -4.1
>>> is no solution.

That explains it all, doesn't it? I am still wondering if we _have_ to use
4.x at all, I switched only reluctantly from 2.95 to 3.3 a while ago, and
now another big jump? I still have 2.77 flying around, why do we need all
those new compilers?

> Maybe someone of the m68k users would like to compile a kernel with gcc-4.0
> and with gcc-4.1 and report how that works out? Anyone?

Yeah, the 4.0.2 cross-compiler failed to build...

Christian