HEADS UP: GCC 3.4.6 update in progress

Conrad J. Sabatier conrads at cox.net
Tue Aug 29 22:50:39 UTC 2006


On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 21:21:20 +0000, Alexander Kabaev <kan at freebsd.org>
wrote:

> In order to pave the way for an upcoming GCC 4.1 import, we decided to
> update GCC 3.4 in the tree to the latest version available in FSF
> SVN repository. After a short period in -current this version will be
> MFC-ed to RELENG6, which will then be able to take advantage of all
> the fixes that went info FSF sources since we did last compiler
> update.
> 
> The update will happen over next hour or so. I will post 'all clear'
> message once the system is back to consistent state.

Cool!

Incidentally, I've been wondering for the longest time now: is/are there
any particular reason(s) why we exclude gcj from the gcc tree/build?
Sure would be a cool thing to have.

-- 
Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads at cox.net> -- "In Unix veritas"


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