RE: [avr-gcc-list] All distro maintainers: GCC 4.2.0 RC2 release needstesting

[Eric Weddington]

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> Subject: [avr-gcc-list] All distro maintainers: GCC 4.2.0 RC2 
> release needstesting
> 
> To All Distro Maintainers:
> 
> GCC 4.2.0 RC2 has been released:
> <ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/prerelease-4.2.0-20070430/>
> 
> There has been a bug report filed about the AVR not being able to be
> bootstrapped:
> <http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31786>
> PLEASE NOTE, that this bug report is for RTEMS which uses newlib, NOT
> avr-libc.
> 
> 4.2.0 RC2 needs to be tested by as many distro maintainers as 
> possible, to
> see if the AVR port is broken, or cannot be built.
> 
> Please send your comments to that bug report, to this list, 
> and to the GCC
> list if you so desire. If there are any problems, we need to 
> inform the GCC
> developers as soon as possible, and also to find a fix.

Fails on MinGW:
<http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31790>
But this could be a host issue, not necessarily a target issue.

Eric