Re: [gccsdk] Recommended autobuilder/packages/etc distros

On 20/05/14 11:20, Theo Markettos wrote:
> A few questions regarding the current situation of GCCSDK and the
> autobuilder packages, because I haven't been keeping up to date:
>
> 1. What's the recommended host distro for building GCC and autobuilder
> packages? Debian, Ubuntu? What version?

I think anything debian based, I currently use Linux Mint 15, which is
derived from Ubuntu Raring, without any trouble.

> 2. What's the recommended source feed for autobuilder packages? Debian,
> but is it squeeze, wheezy, testing, sid...?

If I'm reading the fetch-program script correctly, it looks in testing
(jessie) first and if it doesn't find the package there, falls back to
stable (wheezy).

> (IIRC the autobuilder will try and use the host distro, but it might be a
> good idea to decouple these)

I think it used to work like that, but it caused too many problems with
different distros having different versions of the same package. Its
patches would apply cleanly for one person but not for someone else.
So it was changed so that Debian was always the target and everyone
then saw the same package version.

> 3. What's the recommended GCC for building autobuilder packages? I'm
> assuming 4.1.2 as the stable compiler - but are there UnixLib patches in 4.7
> that some packages need?

Answered by Alan.

Lee.


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