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From: Joshua Kinard <kumba@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] recommended way to get gcc-6 for testing packages
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2016 07:36:02
Message-Id: 78d6e7aa-eb2f-4dc2-a141-7f0621250657@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] recommended way to get gcc-6 for testing packages by "Paweł Hajdan
1 On 09/06/2016 06:56, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote:
2 > On 05/09/16 13:07, Joshua Kinard wrote:
3 >> On 08/31/2016 17:28, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote:
4 >>> gcc-6 doesn't seem to be in portage.
5 >> It's in the hardened-development overlay. You can use layman to install the
6 >> overlay, then test out gcc-6.2.x. Already found a bug related to mips myself, heh.
7 >
8 > Okay. I'll probably take a look.
9 >
10 > Why not add it to portage, unkeyworded or something?
11 >
12 > Paweł
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14 Mike's generally been the guy handling the main toolchain updates, but I'm not
15 sure if he's just been tied up lately or something. We're behind on glibc
16 (2.24 is out), binutils (2.27) and gcc (6.2.0).
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19 Joshua Kinard
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