I'm prepared for breakage in limbo. When the war begins let me know :) On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 4:54 PM Geaaru <gea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > I confirm that there is a lot of work on upgrade to gcc-5.4.0 (a lot of > packages to recompile) but FWIS could optimize a lot of package and there > are packages like for example mongodb-3.4 that need a >=gcc-5.x. > > Gcc-5.4.0 is now stable on gentoo and could be a good idea plan an upgrade. > > I test compilation of ebuild sys-devel/base-gcc and sys-devel/gcc for both > amd64 and arm and installation is been complete correctly. I think that > there is only a fix... avoid set of gcc-5 at the end of base-gcc and move > it at the end of the installation of sys-devel/gcc. > > My cent > G. > > On May 4, 2017 22:15, "Mitch Harder" <mitch.har...@sabayonlinux.org> > wrote: > >> I'm seeing some discussion about updating our Sabayon gcc ebuilds to >> version 5.4.0 >> >> You guys probably already knew this, but just in case this slipped >> through the cracks, I want to make sure everyone is fore-warned that >> this will be a really big chunk of work once we start using GCC-5.4.0 >> on our packages. >> >> At a minimum, we need to rebuild every package that uses C++ since the >> ABI changes. >> >> We may decide to rebuild everything just to insure consistency. >> >> Reading some discussions on the Gentoo M/L, mixing GCC 4.9.4 and 5.4.0 >> is discouraged by several developers, but there do seem to be a few >> who think it can be managed. >> >> The Gentoo news item for this upgrade recommends using a >> revdep-rebuild command to identify the affected C++ packages: >> >> revdep-rebuild --library 'libstdc++.so.6' -- --exclude gcc >> >> When I ran this on my systems, I quickly discovered that this method >> will not discern packages that have already been rebuilt with >> GCC-5.4.0. It just gives me the same list every time. >> >> So, if we encounter build issues (and we almost certainly will since >> some packages will attempt to build out of order), we'll have to come >> up with our own system for keeping up with what's been rebuilt, and >> what packages remain. >> >> I apologize if this has already been discussed, but I hadn't run >> across any discussion on GCC 5.x, and wanted to make sure. >> >> Thanks, >> Mitch... >> >> >
