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

[Erik van Pienbroek]

Jaroslav Reznik schreef op wo 16-01-2013 om 12:35 [-0500]:
> 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. 

I see that gcc 4.8 was just imported in rawhide some hours ago. What's
the plan next? Will the rebuilds happen in a side-tag or in the master
branch and when is it scheduled? We on the Fedora MinGW side are ready
to import mingw-gcc 4.8 in rawhide as well and we would like to know
what's going to happen next so we make the necessary preparations.

Introducing mingw-gcc 4.8 is a bit more painful for us at the moment as
upstream has decided to use a different exception handling model for the
win64 target starting with gcc 4.8 (SEH instead of SjLj). Therefore
various packages need to be rebuilt soon after the introduction of
mingw-gcc 4.8 to avoid broken dependencies.

Regards,

Erik van Pienbroek
Fedora MinGW SIG