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From: Mike Gilbert <floppym@g.o>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: moving gcc-5.2 to unstable
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 14:28:25
Message-Id: CAJ0EP43=MuVj3g1UyKW5JhT4cgG5J45ALpQeotAsGq_ChjpqsA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: moving gcc-5.2 to unstable by Ryan Hill
1 On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 4:21 AM, Ryan Hill <rhill@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Thu, 1 Oct 2015 09:49:47 -0400
3 > Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> what do people want to have in place before we move gcc-5.2 into ~arch ?
6 >>
7 >> the general list looks pretty good:
8 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/536984
9 >
10 > IMO these should be fixed before we unmask:
11 >
12 > 546742: x11-apps/sessreg-1.1.0 fail to build with gcc5
13 > 547626: dev-lang/python-3.3 / 3.4 test_faulthandler hangs with GCC 5.1
14 > 547950: app-shells/zsh-5.0.7-r2 builds but has runtime errors with GCC 5
15 > 555866: media-libs/phonon-4.8.3-r1[qt5] fails to build with gcc-5
16 >
17 > Just because they're common packages that lots of people will have installed.
18 > Also they all have patches.
19 >
20 >> the only glaring issue is the C++11 ABI breakage:
21 >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/542482
22 >>
23 >> we already posted a news item when the breakage started in gcc-4.7:
24 >> https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/4fa0c84858b4df49668da20302fc5b6f
25 >>
26 >> but since gcc-5.x makes this the new default standard, more people are going
27 >> to run into it, so we probably want a reminder. do we want any sort of
28 >> automation otherwise here ?
29 >
30 > I think we need a news item to remind people they really do have to emerge -e
31 > @world after this one or they could have a bad time.
32
33 I was able to get by with a targeted revdep-rebuild run.
34
35 revdep-rebuild --library 'libstdc\+\+\.so\.6'
36
37 The backslashes are significant since revdep-rebuild passes the
38 expression to grep -E.
39
40 Is there any reason to rebuild programs that do not link with the C++
41 standard library?

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: moving gcc-5.2 to unstable Brian Evans <grknight@g.o>