[Fink-devel] gcc44 place keeping packages

[Jack H. <ho...@br...>]

   FYI, I have just opened a fink tracker item for a gcc44
place keeping package since gcc 4.4 is now in stage 3 of
development. The gcc44 package requires the ppl and cloog
packages that are also available on that page to build the
new graphite support in gcc 4.4.0...

http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Graphite

The cloog package requires a cloog-ppl.tar.gz tarball that
is created as described in the cloog.info file from the
cloog-ppl git. The ppl.info builds from the current ppl 1.0pre24
pre-release of ppl 1.0.
   The gcc44 packaging currently can only be built under Leopard
since ppl requres a newer g++ than Apple's gcc 4.0.1 compiler.
The ppl package builds against the g++-4.2 compiler from
Xcode 3.1. Note that gcc42 or gcc43 can't be subsituted for
this since the resulting ppl libraries and the gcc44 compilers
that link against them would end up with conflicting libgcc
linkages from both gcc42 or gcc43 and gcc44 itself. The
use of Apple's gcc-4.2 compiler doesn't cause this problem for
ppl since it links against the system libgcc and not the 
FSF one.
  When gcc44 is released, we could create a gcc44-10.4 package
which doesn't build the graphite support although we will have
to think through what that might mean for packages that depend
on gfortran, etc.
               Jack