[haiku-development] Re: Updates relating to build-o-matic, haiku-files.org

  • From: Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 11:26:33 -0700

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:46 AM, pulkomandy
<pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Since Alpha3 looks like it is going to be another gcc2hybrid - does it
>> even make sense to distribute gcc4 with it any more? I thought it was
>> generally "useless" to use gcc4 on a gcc2hybrid any longer.
>
> It is discouraged, but still useful. People may want to build Web+, for
> example. It's clearly stated in the release notes that it is
> "experimental" and the API will not be kept accross releases for gcc4.
> Perhaps we should introduce more API breakage to make that clearer ;)

I keep reading Ingo's satements that compilation of gcc4 software on a
gcc2hybrid is discouraged...so how can webpositive be compiled on
gcc2hybrid without concerns?

- Urias

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