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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deps on slotted executables (implicit @system tangent)
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:49:46
Message-Id: 201411141650.24857.dilfridge@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Deps on slotted executables (implicit @system tangent) by Andrew Savchenko
1 Am Freitag, 14. November 2014, 15:49:17 schrieb Andrew Savchenko:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 09:08:17 -0500 Michael Orlitzky wrote:
5
6 > >
7 > > Question 1: is it desirable to e.g. switch compilers, compile systemd,
8 > > and then switch back?
9 >
10 > This is definitely a good idea. Some packages are picky about gcc
11 > versions, e.g. dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit usually lags behind the
12 > latest available gcc version by one.
13
14 E.g. cmake may fail to run correctly if it is built with a newer compiler than
15 the one currently selected. Or so I remember from a bug some time ago.
16
17 This is a recipe for major trouble.
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20 --
21 Andreas K. Huettel
22 Gentoo Linux developer (council, kde)
23 dilfridge@g.o
24 http://www.akhuettel.de/

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