Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 23:41 -0500, Andrew Muraco wrote: Out of curiosity, if this goes into effect before 2006.0 is released, then ALL the stages for x86 and the livecd would be built with gcc34? If so then I think this may benefit alot of users, especially ones that do a stage1/2 just so

Re: [gentoo-dev] Addition of DVB_CARDS to USE_EXPAND

2005-11-30 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 07:01 +0100, Matthias Schwarzott wrote: On Monday 28 November 2005 22:37, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 21:53 +0100, Matthias Schwarzott wrote: Hi! If nobody objects I will add DVB_CARDS to USE_EXAPAND on next saturday (2005/12/03). This

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread tuxp3
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 23:41 -0500, Andrew Muraco wrote: Out of curiosity, if this goes into effect before 2006.0 is released, then ALL the stages for x86 and the livecd would be built with gcc34? If so then I think this may benefit alot of users, especially ones that do a stage1/2 just so

Re: [gentoo-dev] apache2 default for 2006.0

2005-11-30 Thread Michael Cummings
Chris Gianelloni wrote: Here's the deal. We have a new user that installs Gentoo. After installing Gentoo, he tries to emerge nagios and it dies on building apache over a bug that has been known for some time and still isn't resolved. How exactly does that make us look? How exactly does

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Graham Murray
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Again, would anyone know what will happen to ~x86 gcc?, Will it become gcc40 or just use the stable x86 gcc for everyone? (except those who are already playing with gcc40 at their own risk) Even if ~x86 does change to gcc40 then gcc is slotted so we can continue to

Re: [gentoo-dev] apache2 default for 2006.0

2005-11-30 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 09:22 -0500, Michael Cummings wrote: Chris Gianelloni wrote: Here's the deal. We have a new user that installs Gentoo. After installing Gentoo, he tries to emerge nagios and it dies on building apache over a bug that has been known for some time and still isn't

Re: [gentoo-dev] enewuser/enewgroup getting their own eclass

2005-11-30 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 19:24 +, Mike Frysinger wrote: I'm looking to minimize what is in a stage1 tarball, not increase it. I would much prefer that we instead had a proper dependency tree, than hacking around it. Applications that need to add users on Linux *should* DEPEND on shadow.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Mark Loeser
Mark Loeser [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Only thing I see as lacking is we might want to get a doc together on how to properly upgrade your toolchain so we don't get an influx of bugs from users that have a system half compiled with 3.3 and the other half with 3.4 so they get linking errors.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Petteri Räty
Mark Loeser wrote: So, let me know if marking it stable in the next day or two is completely stupid and I should wait to announce this via the GWN or something, or if its an alright move and people aren't going to stab me for marking it stable. gentoo-announce at least. I wish emerge

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 01:56:40PM -0500, Mark Loeser wrote: Seems people read this to mean that I was going to write a doc, which I have no intentions on doing. I don't think a whole doc is necessary, but instructions for a safe upgrade would be fine. A think a one-liner like emerge -u gcc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Andrew Muraco
Wernfried Haas wrote: On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 01:56:40PM -0500, Mark Loeser wrote: Seems people read this to mean that I was going to write a doc, which I have no intentions on doing. I don't think a whole doc is necessary, but instructions for a safe upgrade would be fine. A think a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Mark Loeser
Andrew Muraco [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: is a minimum. A full out doc with all the FAQ and important notes about what needs to be recompiled (in my opinion) would be a much more through upgrade path, ofcourse still include the einfo quick instructions. But I think the masses of users will not

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Andrew Muraco
Georgi Georgiev wrote: maillog: 30/11/2005-15:16:35(-0500): Andrew Muraco types Mark Loeser wrote: Andrew Muraco [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: is a minimum. A full out doc with all the FAQ and important notes about what needs to be recompiled (in my opinion) would be a much more

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Mark Loeser
Georgi Georgiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: So make gcc-config produce warnings when changing the compiler. Switching to gcc-MAJOR.MINOR may break your system. Upgrade instructions can be found at http://thedoc; Trigger the message only when switching minor versions. That's going to be really

Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Jakub Moc
30.11.2005, 22:19:27, Peter Ruskin wrote: On Wednesday 30 November 2005 20:12, Mark Loeser wrote: gcc-3.4.* will not be selected as your system compiler after merging it.  The old gcc profile is still valid, therefore it is kept.  Users have to consciously go and change their profile to

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread solar
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 13:56 -0500, Mark Loeser wrote: Mark Loeser [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Only thing I see as lacking is we might want to get a doc together on how to properly upgrade your toolchain so we don't get an influx of bugs from users that have a system half compiled with 3.3 and

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Philip Webb
051130 Andrew Muraco wrote: I think the masses of users will not be happy when they realize that 'emerge -e world emerge -e world' ... Should that be 'emerge -e system emerge -e world' ? ... means that they will be compiling for the next day or 2 or 3 , /spectate As one of the masses, I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:34:56 -0500 Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | As one of the masses, I am certainly disturbed at that implication. | I don't remember any such need when I upgraded 2.9.5 - 3.x (now | 3.3.6). The 2.x - 3.x upgrade was far worse. Maybe you're just repressing the memory of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Grant Goodyear
Philip Webb wrote: [Wed Nov 30 2005, 04:34:56PM CST] As one of the masses, I am certainly disturbed at that implication. I don't remember any such need when I upgraded 2.9.5 - 3.x (now 3.3.6). http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/new-upgrade-to-gentoo-1.4.xml -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Mark Loeser
Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I would very much appreciate a doc somewhere which explains the advantages of moving to 3.4 why a wholesale ground-up rebuild is necessary, if indeed it is. As always, my thanks to those who do the volunteer work. C++ compat was broken between 3.3 and 3.4,

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 17:34 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: As one of the masses, I am certainly disturbed at that implication. I don't remember any such need when I upgraded 2.9.5 - 3.x (now 3.3.6). This is the kind of issue on which I trust the devs to do sensible things, but do we really need to

Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Jakub Moc
1.12.2005, 0:29:48, Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 17:34 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: Ordinarily, I upgrade packages individually when it seems appropriate never do 'emerge world' with or without '-e' or other flags; I do 'esync' every weekend look at what is marked as having

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Mark Loeser
Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 1.12.2005, 0:29:48, Chris Gianelloni wrote: Technically, you don't need to rebuild world. You only need to rebuild stuff that uses C++ and links to libstdc++. revdep-rebuild --library=libstdc++.so.5 is all that's needed here to avoid things like Bug

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Marien Zwart
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 18:50:02 -0500 Mark Loeser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: 1.12.2005, 0:29:48, Chris Gianelloni wrote: revdep-rebuild --library=libstdc++.so.5 is all that's needed here to avoid things like Bug 64615. Yea, I updated my statement on the bug

Re[2]: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Jakub Moc
1.12.2005, 1:30:41, Marien Zwart wrote: Not sure if everyone is aware of this, but most installed pythons link to libstdc++.so. This is not a problem if you run the above revdep-rebuild (it should catch it just fine). It is a problem if you get rid of gcc 3.3 before installing libstdc++-v3

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Marien Zwart
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 01:53:25 +0100 Jakub Moc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1.12.2005, 1:30:41, Marien Zwart wrote: Not sure if everyone is aware of this, but most installed pythons link to libstdc++.so. This is not a problem if you run the above revdep-rebuild (it should catch it just fine).

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Philip Webb
051130 Chris Gianelloni wrote: On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 17:34 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: As one of the masses, I am certainly disturbed at that implication. I don't remember any such need when I upgraded 2.9.5 - 3.x (now 3.3.6). This is the kind of issue on which I trust the devs to do sensible

Re: [gentoo-dev] Modular X porting: dependency changes

2005-11-30 Thread Lina Pezzella
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 22, 2005, at 4:13 AM, Grobian wrote: On 21-11-2005 19:15:58 -0800, Donnie Berkholz wrote: | virtual/x11 isn't xorg for all profiles. Perhaps the relevant people (macos?) could get in touch with me, and we can figure out what needs to

Re: [gentoo-dev] glibc binutils -aware hackers wanted for questions ;)

2005-11-30 Thread Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 02:29 +0100, Spider (D.m.D. Lj.) wrote: Hello, I've been looking some at Michael Meeks -Bdirect patches, and the possible performance boost they could give. The good parts here is that it seems to be far less intrusive for the running system than prelink is, on the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Moving GCC-3.4 to stable on x86

2005-11-30 Thread Lares Moreau
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 16:19 -0500, Mark Loeser wrote: Georgi Georgiev [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: So make gcc-config produce warnings when changing the compiler. Switching to gcc-MAJOR.MINOR may break your system. Upgrade instructions can be found at http://thedoc; Trigger the message

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] PATCH: parallel-fetch

2005-11-30 Thread Brian Harring
On Wed, Nov 30, 2005 at 12:51:58PM -0800, Zac Medico wrote: Brian Harring wrote: Note that due to how it's implemented, this does two rounds of verification- it'll actually do *two* rounds of fetching too, if things go awry in the backgrounded thread. Two possible improvements to help

Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] PATCH: parallel-fetch

2005-11-30 Thread Zac Medico
Brian Harring wrote: 2) Display a warning message via an atexit hook when parallel-fetching is enabled, in order to alert the user that background fetching may _still_ be in progress if emerge appears to hang after an ebuild dies (this happened to me while kde-3.5 was fetching in the