On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 02:01:10PM -0500, Bob Paddock wrote: > On Thursday 30 December 2004 01:14 pm, Graham Seaman wrote: > > > Better keep well away from gentoo :-) > > I run gentoo on all of my systems. > > Search for 'gEDA' on the gentoo forums > > http://forums.gentoo.org/ > > and this is the first thing you see: > > "can't compile sci-electronics/geda-20040111-r1" > > Very outdated, and they can't get it to compile. > > gEDA fails to emerge [gentoo word for install] is yet an other thread.
I used to maintain a gentoo system. every "emerge -u world" crashed, because about 10 packages crashed during emerge. I had to hand-pick them and try which can be upgraded and which not. Very tedious work. Fortunately, I am no more in charge for that system :) I use GNU/Linux with NULL distribution at home and am happy ;-) > For people that like packages, they must be kept up to date or they are worse > than than not having them. Gentoo builds every thing from source but even > it has problems guilding gEDA on some systems. > > Seems it is not only an issue of what libraries the system has but what > compiler version was used to compile them, and gEDA. GCC has bugs too. We caught one when developing Links. Something that GCC preprocessor should expand into some string was expanded into an empty string. But it is still better to have your bugs + GCC bugs + programmer's bugs than your bugs + GCC bugs + distro maintainer's bugs + programmer's bugs Cl<
