Richard Fish wrote:
>> That won't be necessary.  Things mostly works, and when they don't,
>> users file a bug like the aforementioned one, which should result in
>> that particular ebuild getting fixed, instead of the bug being marked
>> INVALID.
> 
> The thing is, "this particular ebuild" isn't actually broken.  Or I
> guess if it is, then so are <some_potentially_large_number> other
> ebuilds in the tree, since they probably won't build with old gcc
> versions either.  Ok, most would probably build with gcc 3.3.  And
> maybe even gcc 3.1.  But 2.95??  Handling this at the ebuild level is
> just not a good solution for the general case.
> 
> -Richard

Well yeah, there's nothing broken w/ the ebuild. And xine-lib is _not_
the only thing that just bombs out on sucky compiler version, see fex.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121501

There's no sane way to force users to switch their gcc version, so
messing w/ ebuild deps, profiles or keywords of outdated gcc versions
won't help...



-- 

jakub


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