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On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 15:01 +0000, Mike Williams wrote: |
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> On Monday 28 November 2005 14:22, Mark Loeser wrote: |
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> > This is basically a heads-up email to everyone to say that we are probably |
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> > going to be moving gcc-3.4.4-r1 to stable on x86 very soon. If any of the |
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> > archs that have already done the move from having 3.3 stable to 3.4 could |
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> > give us a heads up on what to expect, that would be great. Only thing I |
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> > see as lacking is we might want to get a doc together on how to properly |
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> > upgrade your toolchain so we don't get an influx of bugs from users that |
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> > have a system half compiled with 3.3 and the other half with 3.4 so they |
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> > get linking errors. |
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> Shouldn't this be a profile thing? i.e. 200{4,5}.X stays at 3.3.X, 2006.X-> go |
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> to 3.4.X |
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Nope. |
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While it would be possible to limit it to a specific profile, it really |
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makes it a pain in the ass, especially for two versions that are almost |
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compatible, as opposed to the profiles that we have done in the past |
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where we were going from things like gcc2 to gcc3, that were not very |
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compatible, at all. |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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Games - Developer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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