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Hi,

just a quicky. Whats up with gcc-3.4.0 then? Why is it not available for
x86? I've read there are some drastic changes in 3.4.x, is this the only
reason?

Cheers.

hrv wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just a quicky. Whats up with gcc-3.4.0 then? Why is it not available for
> x86? I've read there are some drastic changes in 3.4.x, is this the only
> reason?
>
> Cheers.
Try emerge /usr/portage/sys-devel/gcc/gcc-3.4.0-r6.ebuild
It is still masked, since some programs don't compile when using it, yet.

Jochen

hrv wrote:

> Hi,
>
> just a quicky. Whats up with gcc-3.4.0 then? Why is it not available for
> x86? I've read there are some drastic changes in 3.4.x, is this the only
> reason?
>
> Cheers.

It won't compile kde....


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So anyway, it was like, 03:55 CEST Jun 23 2004, you know? Oh, and, yeah,
Jerry McBride was all like, "Dude,
> hrv wrote:

>> just a quicky. Whats up with gcc-3.4.0 then? Why is it not
>> available for x86? I've read there are some drastic changes in
>> 3.4.x, is this the only reason?
>
> It won't compile kde....

Yes, but are there any downsides as well?

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Johan Lindquist wrote:
> Jerry McBride was all like, "Dude,
>>hrv wrote:
>
>>>just a quicky. Whats up with gcc-3.4.0 then? Why is it not
>>>available for x86? I've read there are some drastic changes in
>>>3.4.x, is this the only reason?
>>
>>It won't compile kde....
>
> Yes, but are there any downsides as well?

LOL,

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Jerry McBride wrote:
> hrv wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>just a quicky. Whats up with gcc-3.4.0 then? Why is it not available for
>>x86? I've read there are some drastic changes in 3.4.x, is this the only
>>reason?
>>
>>Cheers.
>
>
> It won't compile kde....
>

Hi,

It actually *did* compile KDE for me...twice...on 2 different computers.

Jochen

In article <fi4nq1xclh.ln2@spinner.my.domain>,
Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@comcast.net> writes:
>
>> just a quicky. Whats up with gcc-3.4.0 then? Why is it not available for
>> x86? I've read there are some drastic changes in 3.4.x, is this the only
>> reason?
>
> It won't compile kde....

I'm pretty sure I compiled KDE with GCC 3.4.0. This was kde-3.2.2 with
the gcc-3.4.0-r6 package. Perhaps earlier versions of KDE and/or GCC
wouldn't have worked; I know there's been a lot of work in the Gentoo GCC
3.4.0 packages between gcc-3.4.0 and gcc-3.4.0-r6, for instance. It's
also possible that some compiler options present challenges, and I
happened not to use any of those. Finally, this was on an AMD Athlon 64
system, so it's possible that GCC is more able to produce AMD64 code for
KDE than to produce x86 code for KDE.

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>>>>> "Rod" == Rod Smith <rodsmith@nessus.rodsbooks.com> writes:

Rod> In article <fi4nq1xclh.ln2@spinner.my.domain>, Jerry McBride
Rod> <mcbrides9@comcast.net> writes:
>>
>>> just a quicky. Whats up with gcc-3.4.0 then? Why is it not available for
>>> x86? I've read there are some drastic changes in 3.4.x, is this the only
>>> reason?
>> It won't compile kde....

Rod> I'm pretty sure I compiled KDE with GCC 3.4.0. This was kde-3.2.2 with
Rod> the gcc-3.4.0-r6 package.
Rod> Finally, this was on an AMD Athlon 64 system, so it's possible that
Rod> GCC is more able to produce AMD64 code for KDE than to produce
Rod> x86 code for KDE.

When you check http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=sys-devel you
see that gcc-3.4.0-r6 is stable on AMD64, but not at all supported on x86.

Releases x86 ppc sparc mips alpha arm hppa amd64 ia64 ppc64 s390
3.4.0-r6 - - - ~ - - - + - + -

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Rod Smith wrote:

> In article <fi4nq1xclh.ln2@spinner.my.domain>,
> Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@comcast.net> writes:
>>
>>> just a quicky. Whats up with gcc-3.4.0 then? Why is it not available for
>>> x86? I've read there are some drastic changes in 3.4.x, is this the only
>>> reason?
>>
>> It won't compile kde....
>
> I'm pretty sure I compiled KDE with GCC 3.4.0. This was kde-3.2.2 with
> the gcc-3.4.0-r6 package. Perhaps earlier versions of KDE and/or GCC
> wouldn't have worked; I know there's been a lot of work in the Gentoo GCC
> 3.4.0 packages between gcc-3.4.0 and gcc-3.4.0-r6, for instance. It's
> also possible that some compiler options present challenges, and I
> happened not to use any of those.

That's possible. My gcc 3.4.0 tests were on early releases on kde 3.2.2
code. I'll have a new look at the gcc 3/4/0-r6 release and kde 3.2.3.

Thank you, for the info, I'd never would have known otherwise.

> Finally, this was on an AMD Athlon 64
> system, so it's possible that GCC is more able to produce AMD64 code for
> KDE than to produce x86 code for KDE.
>

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Rod Smith wrote:

> In article <fi4nq1xclh.ln2@spinner.my.domain>,
> Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@comcast.net> writes:
>>
>>> just a quicky. Whats up with gcc-3.4.0 then? Why is it not available for
>>> x86? I've read there are some drastic changes in 3.4.x, is this the only
>>> reason?
>>
>> It won't compile kde....
>
> I'm pretty sure I compiled KDE with GCC 3.4.0. This was kde-3.2.2 with
> the gcc-3.4.0-r6 package. Perhaps earlier versions of KDE and/or GCC
> wouldn't have worked; I know there's been a lot of work in the Gentoo GCC
> 3.4.0 packages between gcc-3.4.0 and gcc-3.4.0-r6, for instance. It's
> also possible that some compiler options present challenges, and I
> happened not to use any of those. Finally, this was on an AMD Athlon 64
> system, so it's possible that GCC is more able to produce AMD64 code for
> KDE than to produce x86 code for KDE.
>

On your lead I emerged gcc-3.4.0-r6 and proceded to re-emerge kde 3.2.3...
It took a while on an old amd 1.2gig athlon.... but it compiled without
errors. yes, there's been some major improvments since 3.4.0 was first put
into portage.

Now to see how the new gcc does on other packages...

Thanks.



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