[csw-maintainers] GCC-4.7 on the buildfarm

[Ben Walton]

Excerpts from Peter FELECAN's message of Tue Jun 05 14:01:30 -0400 2012:

> > I've pushed GCC-4.7 to unstable some time ago. What do people
> > think of installing 4.7 on the buildfarm and bumping GAR settings
> > to use it?
> 
> +1 as I requested its installation. If you wish I can test Emacs
> packaging with the 4.7 in my build-farm.
> 
> > We'd also need to make the GCC version variable, e.g. dublin build hosts
> > would use 4.6 and unstable hosts would use 4.7.
> 
> Yes, these steps are required.

+1 for me too.  We should definitely make use of it.  Will there be
any issue with libgcc_s.so versions between unstable/dublin?

Thanks
-Ben
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