Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@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 23:54:24
Message-Id: 200607061942.30926.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: Gentoo vs GNU toolchain (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags) by "Harald van Dijk"
1 On Thursday 06 July 2006 15:55, Harald van Dijk wrote:
2 > I don't have a lot of trust in Gentoo's patches, as they have resulted
3 > in completely and utterly unusable ld, and (minor) data loss due to a
4 > miscompilation by Gentoo's gcc, in the past.
5
6 historically i'd agree with you but i'm pretty confident that this has gotten
7 a ton better with 3.3.6 / 3.4.6 / 4.0.3 / 4.1.1
8
9 > Also, being able to check
10 > whether your own software compiles with a GNU toolchain is to me a good
11 > thing.
12
13 USE=vanilla
14 -mike