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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deps on slotted executables (implicit @system tangent)
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 19:23:39
Message-Id: 20141114192325.79f53f40@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deps on slotted executables (implicit @system tangent) by Rich Freeman
1 On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 14:17:12 -0500
2 Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote:
3 > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Ciaran McCreesh
4 > <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
5 > > On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 09:08:17 -0500
6 > > Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
7 > >> Question 1: is it desirable to e.g. switch compilers, compile
8 > >> systemd, and then switch back?
9 > >
10 > > This will horrifically break things like Portage's parallel build...
11 > >
12 > > Note that on every distribution except Gentoo, there are no problems
13 > > with running multiple versions of gcc simultaneously.
14 > >
15 >
16 > Not really an apples to apples. If you exclusively use binary
17 > packages I suspect that you won't run into any of these problems on
18 > Gentoo either.
19
20 It *also* isn't an issue on any other source based distribution. This
21 is entirely down to Gentoo libstdc++ silliness.
22
23 > However, the right way to do this isn't to toggle some global setting
24 > - it is to just apply specific settings when building specific
25 > packages.
26
27 Which doesn't work properly on Gentoo due to the weird way libstdc++ is
28 handled.
29
30 --
31 Ciaran McCreesh

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