Proposed F19 Feature: GCC48 - switch GCC in Fedora 19 to 4.8.x, rebuild all packages with it

[Nikola Pajkovsky]

Jaroslav Reznik <jreznik at redhat.com> writes:

> As decided by FESCo on 2012-12-05 meeting, all proposed Features are required
> to pass through the community review by announcing them on devel-announce list.
> FESCo votes on new features no sooner than a week from the announcement.
>
> = Features/GCC48 =
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/GCC48
>
> * Detailed description:
> GCC 4.8.0 is going to be released in mid March to mid April and is currently 
> in regression bugfix only mode. I've performed a test mass rebuild on x86_64 
> with gcc-4.8.0-0.1.fc19, out of 12712 packages 11687 built successfully, 933 
> packages failed to build both with gcc-4.8.0-0.1.fc19 and gcc-4.7.2-9.fc19 
> (thus unlikely gcc related), 67 packages failed due to issues on the side of 
> the packages, 22 failed due to bugs on the gcc side that should be fixed 
> already in gcc-4.8.0-0.3.fc19 and 3 failed due to issues still to be fixed 
> on the GCC side. 
>
> See https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/devel/2013-January/175876.html 
> for details. Once gcc-4.8.0-* is built into Fedora, after a few days or weeks
> a mass rebuild should be performed. 

is gcc bug[1] fixed in 4.8.0? it could bring a lot of nasty problems
with app which using atomit_t (unsigned long)

[1] http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=55981

-- 
Nikola