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On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 04:54:03 -0400, 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. |
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Upgrading gcc hasn't been painful for some years. I think 3.3 to 3.4 was |
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the last one with an ABI change that needed a world rebuild for |
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consistency. Since then, upgrading GCC has been no more troublesome than |
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upgrading sys-apps/helloworld. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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"Most problems go away if you just wait long enough. It might look like |
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I'm standing motionless but I'm actively waiting for our problems to go |
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away. I don't know why this works but it does." |
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Scott Adams, Dilbert comic |
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