-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 14/11/14 10:50 AM, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Am Freitag, 14. November 2014, 15:49:17 schrieb Andrew Savchenko: >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 09:08:17 -0500 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > >>> >>> Question 1: is it desirable to e.g. switch compilers, compile >>> systemd, and then switch back? >> >> This is definitely a good idea. Some packages are picky about >> gcc versions, e.g. dev-util/nvidia-cuda-toolkit usually lags >> behind the latest available gcc version by one. > > E.g. cmake may fail to run correctly if it is built with a newer > compiler than the one currently selected. Or so I remember from a > bug some time ago. > > This is a recipe for major trouble. > >
It used to be that after a gcc upgrade people were expected to 'emerge - -e @world' to make sure everything would work properly by being rebuilt for the new version. It's always a possibility that we need to go back to that type of policy for a particular subset of the tree. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EAREIAAYFAlRmO2IACgkQ2ugaI38ACPBueAD/StqbdxmsPwbDmSgczVGwLThj mISg96OlEm8TktUONP4A/AnJm0cV7+APPM97YbCg24qC+7Hz4JtSBZnkEUMDghHS =GfSI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
