Linaro GCC 4.6 and 4.5 2011.09 released

[Michael Hope]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 3:39 AM, Marcin Juszkiewicz
<marcin.juszkiewicz at linaro.org> wrote:
> W dniu 16.09.2011 04:56, Michael Hope pisze:
>> The Linaro Toolchain Working Group is pleased to announce the 2011.09
>> release of both Linaro GCC 4.6 and Linaro GCC 4.5.
>>
>> Linaro GCC 4.6 2011.09-1 is the seventh release in the 4.6 series.  Based
>> off the latest GCC 4.6.1+svn178681, it contains a range of vectoriser
>> and core performance improvements as well as fixing a number of
>> bugs.
>
> https://launchpad.net/~linaro-maintainers/+archive/overlay/ PPA contains
> first version of gcc-linaro package (native compiler). It is work in
> progress - please install, check it and reply with opinion.
>
> gcc-linaro is based on 4.6 2011.09-1 release and installs itself into
> /usr/lib/gcc-linaro/ directory (similar to gcc-snapshot package on which
> it is based).

Nice.  I backported libgmp10 and used it to build a simple C hello,
world under lucid x86_64.

The armel build seems to be a bit confused.  It depends on gcc-4.4 but
build-essentials is correctly pulling in 4.6.  There's lots of 'gcc:
not found' messages in the log.

The PowerPC build fails while building the SPU variant of libstdc++:

"""checking for the value of EOF... configure: error: computing EOF failed
config.status: executing libtool commands
config.status: executing default-1 commands
make[3]: *** [configure-target-libstdc++-v3] Error 1"""

Perhaps SPU needs to be disabled or some of the target libraries disabled?

Should the package version be gcc-linaro_4.6.2011.09-0ubuntu1 or
gcc-linaro_4.6.2011.09-0~linaro1?  0ubuntu1 means that it doesn't
exist in Debian (correct) but does in Ubuntu (incorrect).

-- Michael