From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Wed Jun 9 14:00:50 2010 Message-ID: <4C0FD629.90208@atari-source.org> Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:58:01 -0400 From: Mark Duckworth User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi Subject: Re: [MiNT] MiNTLib 0.59.1 for your testing pleasure.... References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: mduckworth@atari-source.org Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-Id: X-List-ID: List-subscribe: List-owner: List-post: On 6/9/10 12:13 PM, Keith Scroggins wrote: >> I have a great number of older sources with which to learn >> Atari/MiNTLib patch process, ones that are within the time frame of >> the current easymint distribution. Most of those sources are changed >> considerable with current versions, so I would be loathed to add 4.5.0 >> compatibility to those older sources as well (I am talking about >> 100-200 source packages). > > I would be surprised if all of those packages would fail to build in > GCC4. Others can speak to this more than I can, but there is not a > huge compatibility gap, unless there is assembly in the code. > > Keith I've already rebuilt the majority of sparemint with gcc 4.4.3. There is almost no incompatibilities. In fact normal ports almost always compile well while mint specific packages are the ones that fail. Thanks, Mark