Helmut Karlowski wrote:
It's really time to get it finished with the 2.95.3-release soon.
The problem is the mix between compilers and sources from different ages.Older GCC versions can have problems for compiling recent C programs (a lot worse with C++).
Newer GCC versions are a lot more strict and optimize much more. So the old hidden bugs appear, causing problems for compilation or execution.
Newer GCC versions are huge, they can be difficult to run on real Atari hardware.
When upgrading Free Software (like bash or the coreutils), we discover that there are some missing features in the MiNTLib. Sometimes they would rely on missing features from the kernel. Or ELF support.
Well, it's a headache to update a whole distribution like SpareMiNT which has become slowly but surely out of date. I hope things will be better with Gentoo.
-- Vincent Rivière