Holger Hoffstätte wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Aug 2015 12:01:50 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
>
> > On 08/10/2015 05:29:04 PM, James wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Just for grins, I'm thinking about installing a gentoo system
> >> that is (~) testing and newer codes and setting gcc-.5.2 as the
> >> default compiler. Anyone doing this yet? Will it mostly work
> >> or should I wait? Workstation with lxqt-0.9x.
> >
> > I don't use lxqt here, but ...
> > I'm using gcc-5.2.0 very successfully here. I am not aware of a single
> > package which doesn't compile with this version.
> > And the kernel itself compiles just fine (currentlich running 4.2.0-rc6
> > compiled with gcc-5.2.0)
>
> +1
>
> I just updated all my ~amd64 multilib systems to 5.2 and everything still
> works
> without a hitch, including acroread & skype. 4.9.3 is gone. :)
>
> > One caveat though when upgrading a system which has been built with gcc-x
> > for x < 5.
> > The (pure) C++ libraries aren't compatible with older versions so that all
> > packages which link to
> > libstdc++ or libsupc++ have to be rebuilt. Packages which just use C aren't
> > effected at all.
>
> Interestingly I didn't have to rebuild anything (yet), which I find surprising
> given the changes in the ABI and std::string. I expected at least a few
> problems,
> but so far - nothing.
I can't even emerge gcc-5.2.0 because of missing keyword, as of a sync
of yesterday, so what is happening with that?
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