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From: "Stephen P. Becker" <geoman@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: Gentoo vs GNU toolchain (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags)
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 20:09:55
Message-Id: 44AD6C8E.8060300@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: Gentoo vs GNU toolchain (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags) by "Harald van Dijk"
1 Harald van Dijk wrote:
2 > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 09:42:20PM +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote:
3 >> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 21:06:18 +0200
4 >> Harald van Dijk <truedfx@g.o> wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> The GNU toolchain is not supported by Gentoo, and in fact gets
7 >>> actively broken with unsupported command-line options. Only the GNU
8 >>> toolchain as modified by Gentoo's toolchain guys is supported,
9 >>> unfortunately.
10 >> What exactly is it about the toolchain supplied with Gentoo that causes
11 >> you problems?
12 >
13 > I don't have a lot of trust in Gentoo's patches, as they have resulted
14 > in completely and utterly unusable ld, and (minor) data loss due to a
15 > miscompilation by Gentoo's gcc, in the past. Also, being able to check
16 > whether your own software compiles with a GNU toolchain is to me a good
17 > thing.
18
19 Isn't this why gcc et al support the "vanilla" USE flag?
20
21 -Steve
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