Rebuild for GCC-4.7

Richard Shaw hobbes1069 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 5 14:40:43 UTC 2012


On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:21 AM, Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 2012-01-04, Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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).

So noarch packages should be fine and all arch specific packages
should be rebuilt.

I just didn't know if there was any "filtering" going on for the mass
rebuild or if all packages, regardless of dependence on gcc were going
to be rebuilt.

Thanks,
Richard


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