On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 12:34:40PM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote:
Matt ... we are using gcc-3.4.6-3 now ... as it is being released in CentOS-4.4 ... however at the time of the kernel release in question (more than a month BEFORE the RHEL 4u4 release), there was no idea what what binutils, glibc or gcc was going to be released. The new kernels are being built with the 4.4 toolchain, as is our standard practice.
So, the RHSA-2006:0617-15-based kernel from yesterday is built with the new gcc, and the whole conversation is pretty frickin' moot.
We will only build with released tool chains .. and whenever possible, we will build against the same tool chain as upstream. Some times that is not possible. In the cases where it is not possible, we will build against the stable CentOS tree.
We won't build against items in a beta status.
This is clearly a good general policy, but I do think it might be reasonable to consider exceptions in some particular cases where the problem fixed is severe *and* where changes from a known-stable version are clearly minor. That may or may not fit this case, and given the above, I don't want to waste any more of your time discussiong whether it does. :)