I don't want to start a Linux distro war here but I don't think
Drizzle should have to worry about support all Linux flavors. Gentoo,
in particular, has terrible QC processes, among other things (such as
stupid users who don't read the gcc man page and rank each other's
intelligence on how many GCC flags they have in their make.conf, but
that's another story). I used to be a big fan of it, but the lack of
quality control is really bringing that distribution down and
shouldn't bring Drizzle down with it.
For those brave enough to use Gentoo, I'd say just unmask GCC. Drizzle
is an alpha product anyway so by testing it you're already in unstable
territory.
$0.02
Tim S.
P.S. The idea of source-base distributions like FreeBSD and Gentoo
really make me excited. I wish Ubuntu and other Linux flavors that do
have reasonable QC or are at least rowing in the same direction had
more support for them. That, or at least platform-optimized packages.
*shrug*
On Mar 10, 2009, at 5:38 PM, Brian Moon wrote:
Lee was nice enough to send me an email and tell me my build slave
was failing, again. Seems the latest code needs gcc 4.2. My
dilemma is that Gentoo has only marked 4.1.2 as stable and nothing
in the 4.2 branch. I can unmask a 4.2 or 4.3 build of gcc on my
server, but do we want to build test on a distro even though it is
not the "stable" packages for that distro?
--
Brian.
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