[beports] Re: A 4th BEPORTS_PLATFORM?

On 2008-05-13 at 11:00:30 [+0200], Brecht Machiels <brecht@xxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> Hello Scott,
> 
> On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 04:37 -0700, scott mc wrote:
> > Should we be thinking about the 4th BEPORTS_PLATFORM?  That is, Haiku
> > built with GCC4.  Just tossing this idea out there, as I know some
> > things are just not going to work until then such as the WebKit port
> > and the newer VLC versions.
> 
> I see no problem to add another platform. But only if it's absolutely
> necessary.
> 
> I'm not up to date on the GCC2 vs GCC4 issue in Haiku. I don't suppose
> the Haiku team is planning on having a GCC2 Haiku and a GCC4 Haiku? Will
> one be chosen, or will there be both GCC2 and GCC4 libaries in one
> installation?

The likely case -- though nothing has been decided yet -- is a gcc 2 system 
with additional gcc 4 libraries.

CU, Ingo

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