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From: Floyd Anderson <f.a@××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: chromium 60 build failure
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2017 15:43:58
Message-Id: 20170801154325.mscdmn4rdwkjeknl@31c0.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: chromium 60 build failure by Grant Edwards
1 On Di, 01 Aug 15:33:11 +0000
2 Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:
3 >On 2017-08-01, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >> On Tuesday 01 Aug 2017 16:00:07 Alan McKinnon wrote:
5 >>> On 01/08/2017 15:55, Grant Edwards wrote:
6 >>> > On 2017-08-01, Mart Raudsepp <leio@g.o> wrote:
7 >>> >> Everyone is expected to be on at least GCC 5 now.
8 >>> >
9 >>> > OK, next dumb question:
10 >>> >
11 >>> > There are 11 versions marked as stable for amd64. How does one find
12 >>> > out which version of GCC one is "expected to be on"?
13 >>
14 >> I can only see three versions marked as stable on the main portage tree, two
15 >> of them being GCC 4 leaving one 5.4.0-r3 as the obvious candidate. The
16 >> remaining are Masked, or testing:
17 >
18 >If you look at
19 >
20 > https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-devel/gcc
21 >
22 >It showls eleven versions for amd64 in green with a '+' symbol. I
23 >thought that meant they were stable. But, as there's no key on that
24 >page explaining what the colors and symbols mean, I was evidently
25 >wrong.
26 >
27
28 You are right that is a little bit odd and confusing. One have to look
29 at the mouse tool tip while hovering those symbols.
30
31 $ equery keywords sys-devel/gcc
32
33 is more clear on this.
34
35
36 --
37 Regards,
38 floyd

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