On Wednesday 23 August 2006 09:43, Alan Mckinnon wrote: > I believe the gcc ebuild does do a bootstrap compile, which does imply > that emerge -e system is redundant. > > But, we had a huge long rambling thread on this point recently which I'd > rather not rehash again :-) and IIRC the general consensus was that > 'emerge -e system ; emerge -e world' was the way to go, for reasons > broader than just gcc. I forget the details, maybe we should both check > the archives.
Back then we were speaking of a gcc upgrade in which case Richard doesn't disagree with the emerge -e system step which is also mentioned in [1]. We were definitely NOT talking about a minor modification of CFLAGS between -Os and -O3! That's where you're wrong. [1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml -- Bo Andresen
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