Rebuild for GCC-4.7

[Petr Pisar]

On 2012-01-04, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> wrote:
>> starting immediatly there is going to be a mass rebuild of rawhide
>> for gcc-4.7 that landed yesterday.
>>
>> as approved by FESCo (https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/739)
>> packagers will have just over a week, until Thursday Jan 12 to build
>> packages themselves. After that date releng will kick off an
>> automated mass rebuild of everything else.
>>
>> So please get building as Fedora 17 branching is less than 5 weeks
>> away. we need all built by then
>
> I assume this is only required for packages that use gcc? So any other
> packages (perl, python, java, etc.) are excluded from this, correct?
>
A lot of modules in interpreted languages use compiled glue to access
C libraries. They result into architecture specific packages. So they
need to be recompiled too (after the main interpreter).

-- Petr