[plug] gcc3 vs gcc 2.95.x - belay that!

[Cameron Patrick]

Denis Brown wrote:

| Debian's package search site has just come alive and I see there is a
| gcc-3.0 on offer.   Okay, not bleeding edge by all accounts from the gcc
| site but it should get me (safely) working with the 3 version.

I've been using gcc 3.2/3.3 quite successfully and for numerical stuff
it does seem to optimise better than gcc 2.9x.  However I've heard tell
that 3.0 is a bit buggy, especially for C++ (which is apparently still
undergoing some fixing), so you might be better off avoiding it, or at
least making sure that it works with what you're compiling with it.

Grabbing a gcc from testing/unstable would probably be a bad move as
there were some pretty magic binary-incompatible changes made somewhere.

| BTW... I too have had no success getting to Debian's security list today
| and since their breakin,

klecker.d.o (which hosts security and non-us) is definitely down - it's
been mentioned on this list and various Debian lists already today.  I'm
not sure why.

| I have had a lot of pain getting the package searches to return
| anything other than an error message saying the (package search) site
| was down.

packages.d.o was down for a long time after the break-in but was fixed a
few weeks ago and seems to be still working tonight.

Cameron.