On Tuesday 15 November 2005 22:43, Nick Steeves wrote:
P.S. CRUX 2.2 is about January-February far away, yeah? I hope we don't move to GCC4 until at least June. (but that's a huge change, which would probably be called CRUX 3.0, yes?)
I'm running a CRUX system built completely with Gcc 4.0.2 (NOT 4.1). A lot of (old) programs need patches but newer software compiles flawlessly (e.g. I had no problems with KDE; Mplayer was bitching about 'unsupported compiler' but worked just fine after applying a Gentoo patch :-). I don't see any reason to wait any longer - even the big mainstream distributions (Fedora, OpenSuSE) switched to GCC4 some time ago. If our users insist on gcc 3.x.x -> contrib could hold a gcc3-compatibility port.. If a program refuses to compile the packager could also look how other distributions solved that issue (Fedora's Source-RPMs, Gentoo's ebuild files, OpenPKG, ..)
How soon should we begin to work on a devfs alternative? I've read that Per doesn't like udev. We'll want to at least provide the same level of functionality as devfs did, right?
Matt's udev port works quite well. You don't think about a static /dev, do you? bye, danm -- Daniel Mueller Berlin, Germany OpenPGP: 1024D/E4F4383A