GCC3.1 just released - already a system compiler

GCC3.1 just released - already a system compiler

[Eyal Ben-David]

Hi,

Mandrake is using GCC-3.1 as the system compiler for their "Cooker" 
development distribution. They compile everything with it. Many packages are 
already compiled with GCC-3.1 (including kernel, glibc-2.2.5, KDE 3, Mozilla, 
Perl,  and many more). I think their next distro will be based on GCC-3.1

I think Mandrake is doing a great service for testing GCC-3.1. Of course there 
are some compatibility problems with other packages that were compiled with 
their previous system compiler, but they are in a middle of the transition 
period.

I think this answers some questions that were asked here (GCC release 
criteria)

Thanks GCC Team
Eyal.

Re: GCC3.1 just released - already a system compiler

[Andreas Jaeger]

Let me add some information from SuSE's side.  We have done during the
last months extensive testing of our disribution with GCC 3.1 on most
of our platforms (Alpha, ix86, x86-64, S390, PPC, ia64,...) and the
stability of the compiler is really good.  

There're still a number of open issues (see the open GNATS report) but
nothing that I would call a showstopper.

Andreas
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