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On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 04:03:26PM -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: |
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> Harald van Dijk wrote: |
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> >On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 09:42:20PM +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: |
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> >>On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 21:06:18 +0200 |
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> >>Harald van Dijk <truedfx@g.o> wrote: |
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> >> |
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> >>>The GNU toolchain is not supported by Gentoo, and in fact gets |
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> >>>actively broken with unsupported command-line options. Only the GNU |
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> >>>toolchain as modified by Gentoo's toolchain guys is supported, |
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> >>>unfortunately. |
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> >>What exactly is it about the toolchain supplied with Gentoo that causes |
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> >>you problems? |
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> > |
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> >I don't have a lot of trust in Gentoo's patches, as they have resulted |
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> >in completely and utterly unusable ld, and (minor) data loss due to a |
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> >miscompilation by Gentoo's gcc, in the past. Also, being able to check |
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> >whether your own software compiles with a GNU toolchain is to me a good |
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> >thing. |
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> |
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> Isn't this why gcc et al support the "vanilla" USE flag? |
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Gentoo's gcc with the vanilla flag isn't the official GCC. Most patches |
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don't get appplied, but some do. Plus, gcc[vanilla] isn't a supported |
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compiler in Gentoo. |
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