[Mageia-dev] ANN: gcc-4.6.2 landing on Cauldron

[Kamil Rytarowski]

I'm quoting the whole message just to remind it to others.

W dniu 05.12.2011 15:26, Thomas Backlund pisze:
> Hi,
>
> so... the long wait is over....
>
> I've submitted gcc-4.6.2-1.mga2 to core/release now.
>
> As soon as it's available on the primary mirror I'll invalidate the 
> cauldron chroots on the BS to make sure the new gcc is used.
>
> Ater that I'll submit a new glibc and kernel so they are built with
> the new toolchain.
>
> So, we now have glibc & the toolchain upgraded:
> - glibc is at 2.14.1 (available in cauldron since 2011-10-24)
> - binutils 2.22 (available in cauldron since 2011-11-28)
> - gcc-4.6.2 (available later today (2011-12-05)
>
> Now, in order to provide a very good Mageia 2, every package should
> be rebuilt with the new toolchain/glibc in order to make sure they
> still build _and_ work correctly (and flush out any bugs in the
> toolchain)
>
> Now this rebuild should be done preferably in BR order when possible,
> to rule out bad interaction between packages and be preferably be
> fully done by alpha3 or beta1 at the latest so we have time to fix
> it properly for Mageia 2.
Are we also talking about non-C++ or even plain-text only packages? Does 
every package means *really every*?
>
> -- 
> Thomas