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Since people like to start whinging threads every time we have to change flags |
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on gcc this is a friendly notice of some upcoming changes. |
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I'm adding an "lto" flag to work around some issues we have with stabilization |
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of 4.6 on alpha (though the flag will be added to all versions). |
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I'm also going to rename the "test" flag to "regression-test" or something |
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similar to get it out of FEATURES="test" control. The testsuite is a huge |
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time-suck and only useful to developers IMO (always expected to fail and |
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primarily meant to be used to check for regressions between patchsets). I'm a |
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big supporter of FEATURES="test" by default and I think this is a small step |
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towards that. |
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I'll make these changes at the same time as 4.7.3 is bumped to minimize |
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rebuilding but of course stable versions will be affected as well. That's just |
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waiting for me to go through the open bugs so probably end of weekish. |
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I'd also like to drop graphite support for versions 4.4 and 4.5. We use a |
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patch to dlopen graphite libs but older versions were written for ppl-0.10/0.11 |
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(0.12 is the current version) so I doubt they still work properly (missing |
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symbols and whatnot). Some archs still have 4.5 as the latest stable but |
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graphite isn't a "supported" feature and the number of users on those archs is |
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likely tiny. |
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Any thoughts? |
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gcc-porting |
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toolchain, wxwidgets |
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