Eclispe SRPMS

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Mon Nov 17 23:25:41 UTC 2003


In message <1069094782.1066.1.camel at to-dhcp5.toronto.redhat.com>, John Healy wr
ites:
 >On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 19:15, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
 >> Gordon Messmer wrote:
 >> 
 >> > Any chance of a "technology preview" before then?  :)
 >> 
 >> done ;-)
 >> 
 >> http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/enterprise/3/en/RHDS/i386/SRPMS/ecli
 >pse-2.1.0-22.src.rpm
 >
 >Yes, I suppose that would be one way.  ;) 
Something else to keep in mind.  If you're planning to actually compile
Eclipse, then you'll probably need a newer compiler than the GCC 3.3 bits
currently in Fedora.

I've been discussing this issue with Red Hat's Eclipse engineers and the
overall recommendation is to produce and maintain a snapshot of the GCC 3.4
tree as an add-on to the Fedora system.  You could then use that GCC 3.4
snapshot to compile Eclipse.

GCC 3.4 hasn't been released yet, it's C++ code is binary incompatible with
GCC 3.3 and we certainly haven't done thorough testing of the entire Fedora
system with it yet.  So I wouldn't necessarily recommend it for daily use,
but it should be good enough to build Eclipse.

That would also give developers that want to be on the bleeding edge a 
change to start using the new compiler and help shake out bugs.

Thoughts?

jeff





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