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On 09/23/2014 04:54 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> Gentoo stable appears to be gcc-4.7.3-r1. ebuilds up to gcc-4.9.1 are |
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> present in the tree. Upgrading gcc is painful, so I appreciate the |
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> maintainers not forcing a rebuild with every version bump. That's the |
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> philosophy behind "stable". The tradeoff is that we have to wait longer |
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> for "new and shiney" stuff. For those who want it, you can always |
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> keyword a later version of gcc. |
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Stabilization of GCC is especially careful because if your GCC winds up |
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broken, you might not be able to fix it (emerge won't work). |
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And since GCC is used to build everything else on your system, it can't |
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go stable until all upstream packages are fixed or patched to work with |
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the new GCC. |
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There's usually a tracker for those packages. For gcc-4.9 it's at, |
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https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=gcc-4.9 |
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