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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:55:57
Message-Id: 20120220200220.3a54d88a@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking by Zac Medico
1 On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:17:30 -0800
2 Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 02/20/2012 05:03 PM, Ryan Hill wrote:
5 > > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:34:14 +0100
6 > > Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
7 > >
8 > >> I don't know if this has been discussed before but, what issues are
9 > >> preventing us from unmasking gcc-4.6 (and think on a near
10 > >> stabilization)?
11 > >>
12 > >> I have read hardmask message but it simply explains that it's masked for
13 > >> testing purposes :-/
14 > >
15 > > Grub is the only blocker. I don't want to unmask something that makes
16 > > people's systems unbootable.
17 > >
18 > > I'm also out of ideas and open to suggestions.
19 >
20 > Stabilize grub-1.99, and modify the grub-0.9x ebuilds to die if they
21 > can't find a supported compiler.
22
23 What's the state of 1.99? I know someone was working on it recently. We'd
24 also have to update the handbooks. I think it could be several months of
25 work to get it ready, and I'd like to unmask 4.6 last September.
26
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>