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On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 23:41 -0500, Andrew Muraco wrote: |
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> Out of curiosity, if this goes into effect before 2006.0 is released, |
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> then ALL the stages for x86 and the livecd would be built with gcc34? If |
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> so then I think this may benefit alot of users, especially ones that do |
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> a stage1/2 just so they can shove gcc34 into there system at an early |
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> stage. Also, if gcc34 gets moved to x86, would gcc40 be ~x86? This I see |
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> as a bigger problem for those of us that are already running gcc34. But |
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> I'm sure many ~x86 users would welcome that, after all what fun is ~x86 |
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> without some breakage every now and then ;-) |
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2006.0 is still a ways off, but yes, all of the stages would be built |
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with gcc 3.4 exclusively. Of course, this would happen whether we made |
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the change globally (for x86) or if we only did it via profile. The |
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problem with doing it via profile is we *already have* people on 2005.0 |
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and 2005.1 profiles running gcc 3.4, so it means causing a much more |
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disruptive upgrade for all ~x86 users, or anyone who has merged gcc 3.4 |
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explicitly already. |
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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 |