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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: GCC USE flag changes
Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 03:39:05
Message-Id: 20130430214908.12f9f0f9@caribou.gateway.2wire.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GCC USE flag changes by Patrick Lauer
1 On Wed, 01 May 2013 11:33:00 +0800
2 Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > On 05/01/2013 11:25 AM, Ryan Hill wrote:
5 > > Since people like to start whinging threads every time we have to change
6 > > flags on gcc this is a friendly notice of some upcoming changes.
7 > >
8 > [snip lots of good ideas]
9 > >
10 > > Any thoughts?
11 >
12 > I'm in favour of unleashing 4.8 in ~arch soon - I've been building
13 > "everything" with it for a while, I've reached >50% coverage of all
14 > packages on amd64, and the amount of new bugs is about the same as still
15 > open bugs for 4.7.
16 >
17 > All in all it's a very benign release that (imo) doesn't need to be held
18 > back.
19
20 Yeah it's been amazingly quiet. The loop transformation improvements may
21 only bite us at runtime however (another vote for FEATURES=test by default and
22 fix your testsuites people!). In any case I'll be waiting until 4.8.1 until
23 unmasking it, if only for superstitious reasons.
24
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: GCC USE flag changes "Rick \\\"Zero_Chaos\\\" Farina" <zerochaos@g.o>