• Same procedure as every year: GCC defaults change (GCC 9)

    From Aurelien Jarno@21:1/5 to Matthias Klose on Sun Jul 28 00:20:01 2019
    On 2019-07-27 17:28, Matthias Klose wrote:
    GCC 9 was released earlier this year, it is now available in Debian testing/unstable. I am planning to do the defaults change in mid August, around
    the time of the expected first GCC 9 point release (9.2.0).

    There are only soname changes for rather unused shared libraries (libgo) involved, and the gnat defaults change will be handled separately by the Debian
    Ada maintainers. The fortran module changes look ok according to Alastair McKinstry.

    The gcc-9 package still ftbfs on kfreebsd-*.

    We still have local patches for at least the various mips, kfreebsd and hurd

    To be more exhaustive, for release architectures there are also patches concerning the arm target and for other architectures patches concerning
    the alpha, ia64 and sparc targets.

    targets. Please forward these upstream and make sure that these are applied upstream.

    The two MIPS libffi patches have been accepted upstream (i.e. in the
    libffi git repository) 1.5 years ago for one and 4 years ago for the
    other. I know there hasn't been any recent libffi release, so what can
    be done to sync the gcc repository? Would it be possible to stop using
    that outdated embedded copy and use the debian libffi package instead?

    Aurelien

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  • From Andreas Schwab@21:1/5 to Aurelien Jarno on Sun Jul 28 11:10:02 2019
    On Jul 28 2019, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> wrote:

    The two MIPS libffi patches have been accepted upstream (i.e. in the
    libffi git repository) 1.5 years ago for one and 4 years ago for the
    other. I know there hasn't been any recent libffi release, so what can
    be done to sync the gcc repository? Would it be possible to stop using
    that outdated embedded copy and use the debian libffi package instead?

    The gcc copy of libffi accepts backports.

    Andreas.

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