On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:39:11 +0300
Samuli Suominen <[email protected]> wrote:

> James Cloos wrote:
> > Nikos> I see that the "graphite" USE flag is disabled by default. 
> > Nikos> Are there any known issues with this new optimizer?
> > It looks like debian has it enabled in their gcc-4.4 packages, and
> > I've not found any problems on deb boxen (32 and 64 bit systems on
> > modern chips) either.
> > The USE flag probably ought to be +.
> 
> I'd like to remind that we can't add EAPI's to system pkgs since it
> would break the upgrading path.
> 
> If it works well, it should likely go in without USE flag...

It's best to keep the number of external packages needed to build the
toolchain to a bare minimum.  Anything that isn't a hard requirement should
be a USE flag.  We also need to be able to bootstrap without a C++ compiler,
which one of graphite's dependencies (PPL) needs.


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