On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Jan Iven wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 16:18 +0200, Jan Iven wrote:
> ..
> > We are under pressure to release a patched gcc inside CERN, but last
> > time we did something similar the community-wide reaction wasn't overly
> > friendly - which is why we would much prefer an officially blessed
> > errata. Might still come to this, so please consider this advance
> > warning.
> 
> We have just received a request from the LCG architect's forum (that has
> participants from the larger physics software development projects in
> LHC) to roll out a patched gcc version for this issue on our SLC3
> machines.
> 
> The only change vs upstream/SL is a newer version of the
>  gcc32-rh181894.patch

Does it break binary compatibility?

-Connie Sieh

> 
> Labeled as "gcc-3.2.3-56.cern", and we intend to move away from it as
> soon as possible after TUV has released an official errata..
> 
> Currently available from our 'testing' repository at 
> http://linuxsoft.cern.ch/cern/slc30X/updates/testing/
> 
> Regards
> jan
>