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From: james <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc-5.0 ?
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 14:59:19
Message-Id: loom.20150422T165702-181@post.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc-5.0 ? by Nikos Chantziaras
1 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc <at> gmail.com> writes:
2
3 >
4 > On 21/04/15 21:14, james wrote:
5 > > How do you tell if a ~9999 is actually based on the nightlies,
6 > > 5.1 or is just old ebuild with the .9999 extension somebody never
7 > > got around to renaming or deleting?
8 >
9 > 9999 are live ebuilds. Not based on any release or nightlies. They
10 > download the code from a version control repository (Git, Svn, etc.) in
11 > whatever state it currently is and build from that. The version before
12 > the 9999 usually specifies the branch. For example, 5.0.9999 would mean
13 > the latest state of the 5.0 branch (or whatever branch name would apply
14 > to that version, like "stable".)
15 >
16 >
17
18 Agreeded. Look at this gcc.9999.ebuild and you tell me what version
19 it is (Overlay: chromiumos (layman):
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21 http://gpo.zugaina.org/sys-devel/gcc
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24 Sure there is a live ebuild for the latest gcc (5.1.x) ?
25 I just cannot find it .....
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27
28 tia,
29 James

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[gentoo-user] Re: gcc-5.0 ? Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>