[oe] Moving gcc 4.4.1 to 4.4.2

Phil Blundell pb at reciva.com
Thu Oct 22 08:26:12 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 22:06 -0700, Khem Raj wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I have tested a patch which essentially moves gcc 4.4.1 recipes to gcc
> 4.4.2. There are no changes other than PR
> The patch is too big and some lines are larger than 998 chars which
> violates the RFC2822 and hence git send-email
> will not send it.
> 
> There are 25 bug fixes from 4.4.1 to 4.4.2 (per gcc bugzilla) and
> essentially its a bug fix release we could have backported
> these to 4.4.1 too but then I thought using the release conveys better
> message about the release we are using.

You might as well just go ahead and add new recipes for the 4.4.2
release.  Patching 4.4.1 up to 4.4.2-equivalent but still calling it
4.4.1 would just be confusing; also, that would remove the ability for
any folks who might want to use 4.4.1 specifically to do so.

p.






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