On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 04:03:26PM -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > Harald van Dijk wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 09:42:20PM +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: > >>On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 21:06:18 +0200 > >>Harald van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>>The GNU toolchain is not supported by Gentoo, and in fact gets > >>>actively broken with unsupported command-line options. Only the GNU > >>>toolchain as modified by Gentoo's toolchain guys is supported, > >>>unfortunately. > >>What exactly is it about the toolchain supplied with Gentoo that causes > >>you problems? > > > >I don't have a lot of trust in Gentoo's patches, as they have resulted > >in completely and utterly unusable ld, and (minor) data loss due to a > >miscompilation by Gentoo's gcc, in the past. Also, being able to check > >whether your own software compiles with a GNU toolchain is to me a good > >thing. > > Isn't this why gcc et al support the "vanilla" USE flag?
Gentoo's gcc with the vanilla flag isn't the official GCC. Most patches don't get appplied, but some do. Plus, gcc[vanilla] isn't a supported compiler in Gentoo. -- [email protected] mailing list
