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. -- gcc-porting, Character is what you are in the dark. treecleaner, wxwidgets @ gentoo EFFD 380E 047A 4B51 D2BD C64F 8AA8 8346 F9A4 0662
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