On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 14:17:12 -0500 Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Ciaran McCreesh > <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Nov 2014 09:08:17 -0500 > > Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> Question 1: is it desirable to e.g. switch compilers, compile > >> systemd, and then switch back? > > > > This will horrifically break things like Portage's parallel build... > > > > Note that on every distribution except Gentoo, there are no problems > > with running multiple versions of gcc simultaneously. > > > > Not really an apples to apples. If you exclusively use binary > packages I suspect that you won't run into any of these problems on > Gentoo either.
It *also* isn't an issue on any other source based distribution. This is entirely down to Gentoo libstdc++ silliness. > However, the right way to do this isn't to toggle some global setting > - it is to just apply specific settings when building specific > packages. Which doesn't work properly on Gentoo due to the weird way libstdc++ is handled. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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