Re: [gentoo-dev] gcc-3.3.6 for x86 stable

[Mike Frysinger]

On Friday 02 September 2005 01:00 pm, Armando Di Cianno wrote:
> On 2005-09-02 12:05:38 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
> > On Friday 02 September 2005 11:50 am, Gustavo Zacarias wrote:
> >> Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >>> any known/standing issues people wish to get out before we move
> >>> gcc-3.3.6
> >>> to x86 stable ?
> >>
> >> You'll also need a matching dev-libs/libffi, otherwise it'll go all
> >> circular for people using GNUstep.
> >
> > toolchain doesnt maintain libffi, the gnustep peeps do ...
>
> The gnustep herd (me) isn't going to be able to do much until the
> weekend...hey, the weekend starts in about 4 hours for me ...

i'm not exactly in a rush to make this happen, so i dont mind waiting for you 
to get libffi sorted (assuming it wont take like a month :P)

> I've been trying to phase out dev-libs/libffi for a long while...if
> someone can figure out a patch for gcc-3.3 series that compiles and
> installs libffi w/o building the entirety of gjc/java/etc, that would
> be fantastic; gcc-3.4 series has had this for a long time, and the
> patch is incredibly simple -- my one attempt at doing this for gcc-3.3
> series proved fruitless.  (The little bit of monkeying I've done with
> gcc-4 series has proved easy wrt to this.)

so has this all been integrated into the gcc ebuilds or does it need to be 
or ... ?
-mike
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