Should I wait for 1.3

|ghost| · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 6:32 pm Post subject: Should I wait for 1.3

Well I unfortunately had to nuke my entire drive last night to take care of partition problems. So I'm building everything back up and gentoo is next. However, I've heard a lot about this gcc 2.x vs 3.x debate and it makes me wonder if I should just hold off for 2 or 3 more weeks and then install it. How hard will it be to upgrade to 1.3? Given the idiosyncracies of 3.x I imagine it would require a complete recompile of just about everything. Thoughts, opinions?

Thnx

StifflerStealth · Retired Dev Joined: 03 Jul 2002 Posts: 968

Use 1.3a or b, do a rsync, and unmask gcc 3.1.1. I have no trouble with it.

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|ghost| · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 7:50 pm Post subject:

My question really though is whether or not it will be the stable release for a while. I'm not to keen on emerging a new system every couple weeks, I'd rather just wait if its going to be too hard or time consuming.

masseya · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 8:12 pm Post subject:

I am using gentoo 1.3a and have only had one problem. DDD is not compatible with gcc 3.1. I have not run into any stability issues. I would recommend using gcc 3.1 because it will certainly be less of a pain to compile the few applications that don't work with gcc 3.1 with the 2.9X series than to emerge a new system every few weeks.
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mrchuckles · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 8:42 pm Post subject:

I'm curious as to how Gentoo will upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3 once it's stable. Will it work well, if at all?

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Erukian · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 8:58 pm Post subject:

I personally would wait for gcc3.2 to come out in whatever version of gentoo that is at the time. Heck if it comes out between gentoo releases, grab it anyways. GCC3.2 should be the product of all the testing that went into gcc3.0/3.1

I couldnt even bootstrap with gcc3.1 it would die every time it tried to do the gcc stuff w/o optimizations. It started to piss me off cause gcc2.95.3r7 worked fine. So i'm going to give it another shot later when it comes out.

Right now im on Debian, because I did'nt want to go through the pain of all those compiles on gcc2.95.x.

mksoft · l33t Joined: 28 May 2002 Posts: 844

I don't think there would be a smooth upgrade path from 2.95.3 to gcc 3.1 (3.2?). IMHO everything must be recompiled.

I'm using 1.3b for sometime. No special problems (and it sure didn't hurt kde's performance, as the reloc patched binutils is now the default).
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|ghost| · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 9:54 pm Post subject:

Okay then whats the upgrade path from 3.1 (1.3b iso) to 3.2 (1.3 stable, maybe 1.4)? Do you think it will be easier to upgrade from 1.2 to 1.3 stable or from 1.3 beta to 1.3 stable?

|ghost|

Erukian · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 10:04 pm Post subject:

ghost, I don't think anybody is sure about the upgrade path gentoo is takingand which version of gcc goes with what release, but I think the easiest thing to do would to go from gentoo 1.2 to 1.3 final. If it comes out final, then you know the gentoo guys put some effort in to make it work well.

Personally if the gentoo guys release gcc 3.1.1 instead of 3.2 in gentoo 1.3 final then im waiting for 3.2 to get supported because the binary's arent backwards compatible with anything previous to gcc3.2.