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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