GCC 4.3.0 testing! (part 2)

devsk · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 6:13 pm Post subject:

where did you guys get 4.3.2 ebuild from?

Xake · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 8:43 pm Post subject:

devsk · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 9:58 pm Post subject:

Naib · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 10:12 pm Post subject:

libiberty.h-asprintf-glibc-2.8.patch

but that a hardened overlay patch

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devsk · Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 11:30 pm Post subject:

I had to remove 75_all_gcc43-pr36533.patch

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 1:23 am Post subject:

Gentree · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:18 am Post subject:

Hi devsk,

could you post the line you added to remove that patch? Presumably an epatch command but I'm not that confident on getting it 100% correct and this really needs to be 100%.

TIA.

actually may be safest if you could post the ebuild

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devsk · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 4:28 pm Post subject:

Steps I followed:

Gentree · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:21 pm Post subject:

OK, many thanks for the clear instructions that make a lot more sense. I'd taken one of the above comments a bit too literally , I thought the ebuild had been bumped then tweeked to remove the failing patch.

Now I have the fake 4.3.2 patches bz2 all is running smoothly.

If only my hard drive knew what I'm about to throw at it!

Many thanks.

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Gentree · Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 9:46 pm Post subject:

OK, I have my first build of 4.3.2 , thanks for the help.

Before I get into rebuilding world any new features worth investigating for arch=athlon-xp?
In particular is tree-vectorize stable and productive now? The last time I reviewed CFLAGS et al I recall it was not any faster and produced occassional hickcoughs.

CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=64"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fvisibility-inlines-hidden"
#CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -ftree-vectorize"

LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -s"
LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -Wl,--hash-style=gnu"

I don't want to get ricey about this but if I'm going to do a clean rebuild of the system nows the time to make any ajustments worth doing.

Thanks.

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devsk · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:30 am Post subject:

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:34 am Post subject:

gringo · Advocate Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 3793

i´ve been using -ftree-vectorize too for a while now and it looks sane, although i haven´t checked what ebuilds are filtering it. I think i have read it is also enabled by default in -O3 now. -frename-registers still scares me, specially for my powerbook.

The only one i added ( apart from -ftree-vectorize ) is -fdirectives-only which is only usefull if you use distcc/ccache :

http://lists.samba.org/archive/distcc/2007q3/003536.html

cheers
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Gentree · Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2008 8:01 pm Post subject:

Hi, I got a fairly clean run but a couple of issues are blocking me from completing.

wondered if any may be down to 4.3.2

gtk+ fails when checking pango libs. It works on my old 4.2.3 root partition.

ConnClark · n00b Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 57

I was wondering if anybody else here on x86/amd64 has played with the -minline-strings-dynamically optimization flag that was introduced in gcc 4.3.x?

I have used it on things like bash, make, sed, gawk, grep, perl, python, etc ... and building things seems to have a speed increase. I have also hacked the eclass and rebuilt firefox and it seems to have helped speed it up too.

If I could find a way to sneak it into building glibc and gcc I would try that too :twisted:

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kernelOfTruth · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:05 pm Post subject:

ConnClark · n00b Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 57

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:10 pm Post subject:

ConnClark · n00b Joined: 15 Aug 2007 Posts: 57

I don't know if they exclude each other.
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kernelOfTruth · Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 11:15 pm Post subject:

ultimA · n00b Joined: 17 Sep 2008 Posts: 4

I'm too excited to wait any longer for an "offical" 4.3.2 ebuild :DD

Two questions I have:
1) Where did you get "gcc-4.3.2-patches-1.1.tar.bz2" from? Is it just the official gcc diff files found on gcc mirrors bzipped into one? Or is found on some overlay?
2) The reason I need to delete patch 36533 from 4.3.1 is because it was included extra by the gentoo maintainers, but is not part of 4.3.1, but 4.3.2 instead, right? I mean, if I were to take the old 4.3.1 ebuild (without -r1) I wouldn't need to delete this patch, right?

Thx

Gentree · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 8:11 pm Post subject:

read above this was already explained.

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ultimA · n00b Joined: 17 Sep 2008 Posts: 4

[quote="Gentree"]read above this was already explained.[/quote]

Thx for your "help". The problem is, I didn't find that info, which is obviously why I'm asking. You might be referring to the post about "portage, namebump", only problem is I don't have an idea what a namebump is. I'm a developer but relatively new to gentoo.

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 10:16 pm Post subject: