On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 14:13 -0800, Per Bjornsson wrote: > On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 22:44 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > > After all, i probably should have seen that gcc4 now is gcc-4.0. But how > > will gcc3 be shipped? gcc-compat (as usual? brings up the whole > > so-version conflict... I think i shall let that rest in the sand. > > Wait... care to explain what the problem is? As far as I can tell, > compat-gcc contains GCC 3.3.<recent> and gcc contains GCC 4. There > shouldn't be any need to ship both GCC 3.4 and 4.0 for ABI reasons; they > are supposed to be compatible, and thus libstdc++ will keep the same > major soversion. (I guess that the reason for shipping compat-gcc at all > is to be able to provide a complete LSB environment? Or is anything in > the distro actually built with the compat toolchain?) While C/C++ may be ABI compatible, they are not API. I just committed some changes to my own C++ projects to make them compile on GCC 4.0, for example. A lot of C++ software especially may not build on GCC 4.0 until they've been ported (or "bugfixed" depending on how you look at the changes). > > /Per > > -- > Per Bjornsson <perbj@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University > -- Sean Middleditch <elanthis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
