Project:Toolchain

Gentoo Toolchain Project
Description	Manages gcc/binutils/glibc and other toolchain-related packages
Project email	toolchain@gentoo.org
Lead(s)	Matthias Maier (tamiko) Last elected: 2017/08/20
Member(s)	Anthony G. Basile (blueness) Andreas K. Hüttel (dilfridge) Joshua Kinard (kumba) Luca Barbato (lu_zero) Matt Turner (mattst88) Steve Arnold (nerdboy) Sergei Trofimovich (slyfox) Mike Frysinger (vapier) William Hubbs (williamh) Magnus Granberg (Zorry)
Subproject(s) (and inherited member(s))	Gentoo Crossdev maintainers
Parent Project	Gentoo Base System
Project listing

The toolchain project manages gcc, binutils, glibc, and other toolchain-related packages.

Team meetings

• The next team meeting is (to be decided).
• Agenda: (to be written)
• Agenda topic collection page: Project:Toolchain/To be discussed

Packaging notes

sys-kernel/linux-headers

• packaging sys-kernel/linux-headers

Misc notes

Managing patches

• Managing toolchain patchsets with git

Version support policy

• Policies for support of old versions

User guides for toolchain packages

This section covers various package Toolchain project maintains.

dev-util/ccache

• Tips and tricks using dev-util/ccache

Porting notes

This section describes common build breakages, example fixes and a bit of explanation. Useful to craft the patch and explain upstream why change is needed.

gcc

gcc-8

• error: -Wabi won't warn about anything [-Werror=abi], example bug #663928

glibc

glibc-2.26

• sysmacros.h: missing major(), minor() macros
• xlocale.h not found
• glibc-2.26+ /etc/nsswitch.conf changes
• Migrating from SunRPC to libtirpc

glibc-2.27

• pow10, pow10f and pow10l removed
• ld: cannot find -lieee

glibc-2.28

Tracker: bug #663916

• fseeko,fflush are broken for bundled gnulib, example bug #663242

libffi

libffi-3.3

Tracker: bug #667508

• FFI_SYSV was not declared in this scope, example bug #667476

Update guides

• mpfr-4 update guide

Reporting bugs

• GCC "internal compiler error" bug reporting guide