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Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> posted |
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200905010407.57394.volkerarmin@××××××××××.com, excerpted below, on Fri, |
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01 May 2009 04:07:57 +0200: |
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> On Freitag 01 Mai 2009, Branko Badrljica wrote: |
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>> I have noticed that gcc-4.4.0 is out for some days now and went to see |
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>> if anyone has noticed it on gentoo.org. |
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> install the gcc-porting and toolchain overlays. Have fun. Or feel the |
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> pain. look at this first: |
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> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=249226 |
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Thanks for the link. I'm usually quite early-bird about installing new |
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gccs and compiling what parts of the system I can with them, using gcc- |
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config to switch back to older gccs when necessary. However, I've not |
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been quite as anxious to try it this time, in part because I got the |
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impression (based on the upstream porting guidelines) that there's a bit |
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more ABI incompatibility this time around such that packages that I can't |
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yet build with 4.4 might quit working with no recourse but to revert to |
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4.3 for the entire system. |
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That extra hassle on top of the fact that amd64 is well enough supported |
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now that the improvements between versions isn't as dramatic as it was |
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for awhile, more the incremental improvements with mature gcc support |
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normally get with a version bump, lowers the personal urgency level |
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significantly for me. |
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However, I now have a nice convenient bug bookmarked to go look at to |
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check status, when I do decide I want to try it, as I'm relatively likely |
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to do well before it gets unmasked to ~arch. So indeed, thanks. =:^) |
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-- |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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