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From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, toolchain@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: gcc-6.x status inquiry
Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 17:58:43
Message-Id: 1187ac04-2b02-6c21-e7a0-d46cf846e2a3@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] gcc-6.x status inquiry by William Hubbs
1 On 5/3/17 6:43 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
2 > Hey all,
3 >
4 > I am asking about this because I have been asked to look into
5 > packaging software that has a specific requirement for >=gcc-6 in order
6 > to build [1].
7 >
8 > I see that gcc-6.3 doesn't have keywords, so I'm
9 > wondering when it will get them? Does anyone have any idea? I'm not
10 > talking about stable keywords, just ~. ;-)
11 >
12 > Thanks much,
13 >
14 > William
15 >
16 > [1] https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/install-cockroachdb.html
17 >
18
19 As I said few times, we should dump gcc-5 sooner than later and any
20 software that does not build with gcc-6 should be p.masked and dropped
21 from the tree if there isn't a nice fix for it.
22
23 So, I'm not seeing anything wrong in ~ gcc-6.
24
25 lu

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gcc-6.x status inquiry Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o>