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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:05:22 -0500
From: "Nathan Beyer" <nbeyer@gmail.com>
To: harmony-dev@incubator.apache.org, geir@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [general] version of gcc and other tools
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As Geir mentions, there a compiler difference's in Sun's JDK. The
changes are noticeable between 5.0_7 and 5.0_8. Note: Sun as released
5.0_9.

I'd prefer to be using ECJ for our compiler, but I haven't heard
anything lately about getting that back into the build scripts.

-Nathan

On 10/12/06, Geir Magnusson Jr. <geir@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>
> Weldon Washburn wrote:
> > My tools are:
> >
> > - WindowsXP
> >    - MSVS .NET 2003
> >    - ant-1.6.5
> >    - Sun JDK 1.5.0_07_b03
> >
> > - Linux
> >    - gcc 3.4.5
> >    - ant-1.6.5
> >    - IBM JDK 1.5.0_08_b03
> >    - make 3.8.0
> >
> > How about the following first stab at Geir's idea of  "will work" tool
> > chains?  The idea is to quickly converge the below so that I can call a
> > vote
> > on it.
>
> I don't think we'll need a vote here - we'll be able to come to
> agreement without that.
>
> >
> > -WindowsXP on laptop, Windows Server 2003 on servers
> >     - MSVS .NET 2003
> >    - ant-1.6.5
> >    - Java JDK 1.5.0_xxxx
> >
> > - Linux
> >    - gcc 3.4.xxx or higher
> >    - ant-1.6.5
> >    - Java JDK 1.5.0_xxxx
> >    - make 3.8.0 or higher
>
>
> We need a strict version of Java, I think, because IIRC, there was
> problems with a recent patch level of the compiler from Sun.  I don't
> remember how that was resolved.
>
> I think that we also should try to switch completely to the eclipse
> compiler, so we can include it as a downloaded dependency, and we all
> are building using the same thing.
>
> also, I'd like to define a "maximum" for the version of gcc/g++  - IOW,
> we want to test up to 4.x.y, so when 4.x.z appears, we need to test first...
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/12/06, Pavel Ozhdikhin <pavel.ozhdikhin@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> To update the statistics, my tools:
> >>
> >> - MS Windows Server 2003 / IA32:
> >>       MSVS .NET 2003
> >>       ant-1.6.5
> >>       JRockit JDK 1.5.0_03
> >>
> >> - Linux / IA32:
> >>       gcc 3.3.3
> >>       GNU make 3.80
> >>       ant-1.6.5
> >>       JRockit JDK 1.5.0
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Pavel
> >>
> >> On 10/10/06, Geir Magnusson Jr. <geir@pobox.com> wrote:
> >> > I'm so sick of this gcc problem.
> >> >
> >> > Lets decide on the versions for GCC and other tools that "will
> >> work".  I
> >> > feel the same way that mark does re that being able to build on
> >> multiple
> >> > versions gives a better feeling of goodness and harmony in the universe
> >> > and I encourage people to work on other versions (I will), but it's
> >> > gotta be the case that we have a "reference toolchain" - that no matter
> >> > what, it will work on there, and probably a list of tested versions
> >> >
> >> > So, what tools and what versions are people working with ?   here's a
> >> > partial list of mine :
> >> >
> >> > 1) WinXP : Visual Studio .NET 2003
> >> >
> >> > 2) Linux x86 :
> >> >     GCC : 3.4.6
> >> >     g++ : 3.4.6
> >> >     make : 3.81b4
> >> >
> >> > What are you using?  what other tools should we list?
> >> >
> >> > I recently setup a new machine (linux) and now have the complete
> >> list of
> >> > stuff that has to be installed (starting from fresh ubuntu6) and will
> >> > post that on the getting started document on teh website.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > geir
> >> >
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