Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: ebuild for gcc-4.4.0 ?

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

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

well, I did it (I am just doing it) upgraded to 4.4 and 2/3 through the
emerge -e system step  (Currently merging 104 out of 151, gcc - again). 
So far, so good. With graphite and openmp useflag. Of course.