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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: toolchain@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gcc-6.x status inquiry
Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 18:42:27
Message-Id: 20170503184215.GA21428@whubbs1.gaikai.biz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gcc-6.x status inquiry by Ian Stakenvicius
1 On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 02:00:26PM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
2 > On 03/05/17 01:58 PM, Luca Barbato wrote:
3 > > On 5/3/17 6:43 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
4 > >> Hey all,
5 > >>
6 > >> I am asking about this because I have been asked to look into
7 > >> packaging software that has a specific requirement for >=gcc-6 in order
8 > >> to build [1].
9 > >
10 > > As I said few times, we should dump gcc-5 sooner than later and any
11 > > software that does not build with gcc-6 should be p.masked and dropped
12 > > from the tree if there isn't a nice fix for it.
13 >
14 > Just a heads-up, that p.mask list would happen to include firefox and
15 > thunderbird right now.
16
17 So if we don't p.mask those, is them breaking with gcc-6 still enough
18 to keep gcc-6 out of ~? If not, I definitely +1 what lu_zero said,
19 let's add ~keywords to gcc-6.
20
21 William

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gcc-6.x status inquiry Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>