From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H . J . Lu" To: Andreas Jaeger Cc: Geoff Keating , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Compiler for Red Hat Linux 8 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:03:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010718090333.A11375@lucon.org> References: <200107172020.NAA09154@geoffk.org> X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg01272.html On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 11:41:18AM +0200, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > > IMO we should broaden the issues a bit. The issues you're facing will > be faced by all Linux distributors. We should avoid a situation where > each distributor releases a GCC 3.0 version that is only compatible to > itself. > > I personally would appreciate - and support - a commitment from some > of the Linux distributors on the next GCC version they're using and on > compatibility to a *released* GCC version. I think that is the problem. When was the last time any Linux distributions used an unmodified *released* GCC? Probably never. None of the *released* GCCs was good enough to build a whole Linux distribution. Every vendor has to modify a *released* GCC or take a snapshot from CVS. One way to solve it for Linux is to have a vendor-natural Linux gcc, which is known to be able to compile a complete, working Linux distribution. But given the release schedule of gcc, unless a Linux distribution wants to sync their release schedule with gcc, which I don't believe is likely to happen, I don't think such a Linux gcc will be a *released* GCC. That is why I suggested making bug fix releases of gcc every 2 or 3 weeks so that there is a chance that we can use a *released* GCC for Linux distributions. Of course, I am assuming that those bug fix releases fix the reported Linux build bugs. H.J.