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From: Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:32:19
Message-Id: 1329787840.26970.2.camel@rook
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking by Ryan Hill
1 On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 19:03 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote:
2 > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:34:14 +0100
3 > Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > I don't know if this has been discussed before but, what issues are
6 > > preventing us from unmasking gcc-4.6 (and think on a near
7 > > stabilization)?
8 > >
9 > > I have read hardmask message but it simply explains that it's masked for
10 > > testing purposes :-/
11 >
12 > Grub is the only blocker. I don't want to unmask something that makes
13 > people's systems unbootable.
14 >
15 > I'm also out of ideas and open to suggestions.
16
17 gcc is slotted. Is there any reason why we can't simply make grub depend
18 on a working slot of gcc and set CC appropriately in the ebuild?
19
20 -Alexandre

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[gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>