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From: MIkey <mikey@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:12:39
Message-Id: 200601262209.k0QM9p06016351@gw.open-hosting.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: Re: Re: bootstrapping since gcc 3.4 is stable by "Jan Kundrát"
1 Jan Kundrát wrote:
2
3 > Great, there was a bug. Yeah, there was. Please notice the word "was".
4 > It means that it has been fixed and it isn't there anymore. So the
5 > problem got fixed. It's over. Finito. Period. Why are you still talking
6 > about it?
7
8 Because Becker needed to be informed about it. I know it was fixed, I am
9 not bitching about it. I am merely pointing out that a stage3 installation
10 isn't quite so simple to support and is just as prone (more prone in my
11 opinion) to problems as a stage1 installation method. The main crux of
12 what I am saying is that it is, in fact, more error prone and takes longer.
13
14 >> The official gcc migration instructions happen to be
15 >> the same for both a stage3 install and a running installation.
16 >
17 > Do you have some problems with understanding an English text? It was
18 > already stated several times that upgrading GCC from fresh stage3 is
19 > *not* the same as in the live system.
20
21 Where are they then? How are they different? You might want to let someone
22 else know.
23
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