On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 15:09:06 -0000 (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2019-03-29, Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net> wrote: > > 190329 Grant Edwards wrote: > > > >> gcc-7.3.9-r3 is marked stable, yet it fails to build if you have the > >> current stable version of glibc installed (2.28-r5). > > > > I've been using Gcc-8.2.0-r6 since 170302 with Glibc-2.27-r6 : no problems. > > What I'm asking about is that 7.3.0-r3 (which is stable) won't build > with glibc-2.28 (which is stable). My question: is that considered a > bug or not?
It depends on the details of the problem, but you provided no details to make further considerations. In general it would be considered a bug. > One might think that the 7.3.0-r3 ebuild should require > gblic < 2.28. Is one allowed to tweak ebuilds like that without > bumping the revision? > > FWIW 7.3.0-r6 does build and works fine for my application which won't > build with gcc-8 -- so it's purely an academic question. It's better to fix your application. Fixing problem revealed by gcc update is usually not hard. Best regards, Andrew Savchenko
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