[Clfs-dev] GCC update

[William Harrington]

Greetings fellow CLFS builders,

We are needing to update gcc.

I'm fond of updating gcc to 4.7.3 rather than 4.8.0. I mentioned  
earlier that graphite had issues with 4.8.0 with throwing segfaults  
everywhere. I went to 4.7.3 an didn't have issues. The author of  
0linux has the same thought, and sticks with 4.7.3 as of now. I know  
gcc 4.8.0 has a lot of features which people will want, and 4.7.3  
isn't far behind, but it is more stable as of now, as far as I'm  
concerned with graphite. CLFS includes graphite, and so it seems  
important that graphite work properly. I do not know what gcc 4.8.0  
has which causes graphite to be a problem. 4.7.x is fine. It could be  
a problem with cloog-isl or some other graphite component.

Should we go for GCC 4.7.x or 4.8.0? I'm shooting for 4.7.x.

What we want is stability. The last thing we want is someone building  
CLFS with gcc 4.8.0 then wanting to use graphite options and then  
everything segfaults all over the place. Or we could use gcc 4.7.3 and  
graphite options don't cause segfaults all over the place.

Common problems with gcc 4.8.0 and graphite:  ncurses and readline.   
Those caused the most issues with my experimental builds.

Sincerely,

William Harrington