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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:18:46
Message-Id: 4F42F0AA.50004@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking by Ryan Hill
1 On 02/20/2012 05:03 PM, Ryan Hill wrote:
2 > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:34:14 +0100
3 > Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> I don't know if this has been discussed before but, what issues are
6 >> preventing us from unmasking gcc-4.6 (and think on a near
7 >> stabilization)?
8 >>
9 >> I have read hardmask message but it simply explains that it's masked for
10 >> testing purposes :-/
11 >
12 > Grub is the only blocker. I don't want to unmask something that makes
13 > people's systems unbootable.
14 >
15 > I'm also out of ideas and open to suggestions.
16
17 Stabilize grub-1.99, and modify the grub-0.9x ebuilds to die if they
18 can't find a supported compiler.
19 --
20 Thanks,
21 Zac

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[gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>