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On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 14:17:12 -0500 |
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Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Ciaran McCreesh |
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> <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 09:08:17 -0500 |
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> > Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote: |
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> >> Question 1: is it desirable to e.g. switch compilers, compile |
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> >> systemd, and then switch back? |
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> > This will horrifically break things like Portage's parallel build... |
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> > Note that on every distribution except Gentoo, there are no problems |
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> > with running multiple versions of gcc simultaneously. |
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> Not really an apples to apples. If you exclusively use binary |
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> packages I suspect that you won't run into any of these problems on |
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> Gentoo either. |
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It *also* isn't an issue on any other source based distribution. This |
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is entirely down to Gentoo libstdc++ silliness. |
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> However, the right way to do this isn't to toggle some global setting |
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> - it is to just apply specific settings when building specific |
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> packages. |
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Which doesn't work properly on Gentoo due to the weird way libstdc++ is |
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handled. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |