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Just FYI, a few brave souls like myself have already been running GCC |
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3.3 of CVS for a period of time, and have found quite a few solutions to |
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common problems with GCC 3.3 and various packages. |
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There's a thread in Other things Gentoo on the forums that you might |
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want to read, I forgot the complete link and I lack a browser right now |
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so go search :) |
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On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 16:20, Spider wrote: |
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> begin quote |
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> On 16 May 2003 13:00:53 +0100 |
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> Dhruba Bandopadhyay <dhruba@××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> > |
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> > There is an ebuild for it on bugzilla and one here and some on forums |
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> > too. Have you used any of these as a definitive base or is this a new |
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> > creation? |
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> Neither, I wanted a go at it again (I haven't been messing with gcc |
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> since 3.1 days) so I started from last known working 3.2.3 and went on. |
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> > Also, is there any sign of this being entered into hardmasked or |
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> > testig state on portage? |
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> I'm not the maintainer of gcc, so I shall leave that up to Azarah to |
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> decide, let him distill the different builds along with his own |
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> experience to see what goes. |
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> > |
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> > I'd be quite keen on testing it out since I have had my fair share of |
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> > pentium4 problems and am desperately hoping an upgrade of gcc will |
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> > sort them out. |
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> It may, so far it appears some old c++ code will barf though. not sure |
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> about glibc and kernel issues either. |
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> > Pardon my ignorance but have all these patches been commented out to |
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> > prevent resultant problems or because they are no longer necessary? |
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> Thats up to the maintainer, since I havent taken the time to go through |
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> the patches each in turn and verify wether it is needed anymore I just |
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> commented it out to see what happened. I suspect a lot of them are no |
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> longer necessary, and those that are will have to be re-diffed in a new |
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> manner, not really an easy task. |
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> I suspect the real build won't enter portage until propolice is up in |
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> speed though. |
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> //Spider |
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