[meego-commits] GCC 4.5 (was: 5539: Changes to Trunk:Testing/gcc)

[Jan-Simon Möller]

On Saturday 10 July 2010 13:20:40 Zhang, Austin wrote:
> Yeah, if necessary, meego can. But also bring complexity, not every distro keep difference version at the same time.

Keep also in mind that we've the cross-compiler for ARM directly built from the same gcc sources. 
Yes, its possible and could be and interesting option. E.g. openSUSE has a way to do this 
(package gcc is the switch/wrapper there). But that would mean: we'd have to provide that then for all 
targets and as its build in OBS, we need the cross-compilers then, too.
-> (gcc45 + gcc44) * [ 1(i586) + 2(ARM/native) + 2(ARM/cross) ] -> 10 flavours to care about.
What about the upper-level sdk-tools ? Should they tool around 2 versions ? 
That would produce even more flavours, different sysroot-tarballs and so on.

Isn't one of the mantras of MeeGo -> do it in one way ? 

OTOH, I assume gcc45 will now last for quite some time - at least gcc46 is probably out after 1.3 release.
So it makes sense to use gcc45 now. 

Best,
Jan-Simon