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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking
From:       Xavier Miller <xavier.miller () cauwe ! org>
Date:       2012-02-21 8:26:06
Message-ID: 20120221092606.Horde.qd-vd6ZGjkBPQ1UexEiCCZA () neverland ! cauwe ! org
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Hello,
Quoting Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@gentoo.org>:

>> gcc is slotted. Is there any reason why we can't simply make grub depend
>> on a working slot of gcc and set CC appropriately in the ebuild?
>
> We have no way of forcing an ebuild to be built with a particular version of
> GCC.  This is on purpose, and there are both technical and sociological
> reasons for it.
>
> What we can do is take some kind of action if the compiler is 4.6, such as
> die with a message to use grub-static instead.


There were a time many applications needed libstdc++3 (or even GCC  
2.96) and we lived with 2 slots of GCC without any problem. And there  
are many work-around for not using grub legacy : grub-static, grub2,  
lilo, syslinux, u-boot-tools, ...

Sorry for the intrusion,

Xavier Miller.

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