On Thu, 1 Oct 2015 09:49:47 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> what do people want to have in place before we move gcc-5.2 into ~arch ? > > the general list looks pretty good: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/536984 IMO these should be fixed before we unmask: 546742: x11-apps/sessreg-1.1.0 fail to build with gcc5 547626: dev-lang/python-3.3 / 3.4 test_faulthandler hangs with GCC 5.1 547950: app-shells/zsh-5.0.7-r2 builds but has runtime errors with GCC 5 555866: media-libs/phonon-4.8.3-r1[qt5] fails to build with gcc-5 Just because they're common packages that lots of people will have installed. Also they all have patches. > the only glaring issue is the C++11 ABI breakage: > https://bugs.gentoo.org/542482 > > we already posted a news item when the breakage started in gcc-4.7: > > https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/4fa0c84858b4df49668da20302fc5b6f > > but since gcc-5.x makes this the new default standard, more people are going > to run into it, so we probably want a reminder. do we want any sort of > automation otherwise here ? I think we need a news item to remind people they really do have to emerge -e @world after this one or they could have a bad time. FWIW I updated one system from 4.9 to 5.2 by rebuilding ~700 packages in random order just to see how bad the ABI breakage would be and only ran into it once. I may have just gotten lucky though. -- Ryan Hill psn: dirtyepic_sk gcc-porting/toolchain/wxwidgets @ gentoo.org 47C3 6D62 4864 0E49 8E9E 7F92 ED38 BD49 957A 8463
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