[parisc-linux] Re: gcc-3.2 -> gcc-3.3 transition on hppa

Matthias Klose doko@cs.tu-berlin.de
Sun, 9 Mar 2003 21:06:54 +0100


Randolph Chung writes:
> In reference to a message from Matthias Klose, dated Mar 01:
> > Matthias Klose writes:
> > > AFAIK the transition from 3.2 to 3.3 requires recompilation of C++
> > > code due to the changed exception handling (now DWARF2 based). As
> > > libstdc++ in 3.2 and 3.2 have the same soname, how to handle it?
> > > Currently 3.2 is in unstable only. Would you want to start the
> > > recompilation before 3.2 based binaries go to testing?
> > > 
> > > The packaging for 3.3 can be found in the Debian CVS.
> > 
> > You can get test packages from
> > 	http://ftp-master.debian.org/~doko/gcc-3.3/
> 
> well.... this is not looking good. after installing these in a freshly
> built sarge chroot, all c++ programs stop working (well, i've only tried
> two -- apt and fakeroot)

You can find updated packages at
	http://ftp-master.debian.org/~doko/gcc-3.3/hppa/
checked building bash (fakeroot) and upgrading an unstable chroot (apt).

> (btw, small packaging detail, but the libstdc++*-dev package above
> cannot be installed cleanly because it overwrites things in the current
> 3.2 package)

There is still one conflict for libstdc++5-dev (<= 1:3.2.3-0pre3), so
please install libstdc++5-dev (1:3.2.3-0pre4) first.

	Matthias