Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking

2012-02-22 Thread Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ryan Hill schrieb: >> I don't know if this has been discussed before but, what issues >> are preventing us from unmasking gcc-4.6 (and think on a near >> stabilization)? >> >> I have read hardmask message but it simply explains that it's >> masked fo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking

2012-02-22 Thread James Cloos
> "B" == Ben writes: >> stabilizing Grub 2 ASAP is the sanest thing you can do, since even >> though it's also beta software, it's at least maintained by upstream. B> I would hesitate to say it's the *sanest* thing to do, but we should at B> least get it into ~arch and make sure our documen

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking

2012-02-21 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 09:36:03PM -0800, Alec Warner wrote: > My intent was not to suggest that we ditch grub1, but that grub2 would > be stable and the 'default' assuming we (I?) can get it to work. As one of the main Grub1 maintainers in Gentoo presently, I welcome this course of action with the

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking

2012-02-21 Thread Alec Warner
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 8:22 PM, Ben wrote: > On 22 February 2012 06:57, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> [...] Given that Grub 1 is >> both beta software (it got stuck at 0.97, never made it to 1.0) and >> unmaintained, > > Just looking at KDE 4.0 and GNOME 3.0 should tell you that version > numbers

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking

2012-02-21 Thread Ben
On 22 February 2012 06:57, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > [...] Given that Grub 1 is > both beta software (it got stuck at 0.97, never made it to 1.0) and > unmaintained, Just looking at KDE 4.0 and GNOME 3.0 should tell you that version numbers can be *very* deceiving. And while grub-0.97 may "offic

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking

2012-02-21 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Alec Warner wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: >> El lun, 20-02-2012 a las 20:02 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió: >>> On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:17:30 -0800 >>> Zac Medico wrote: >>> >>> > On 02/20/2012 05:03 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: >>> > > On Mon, 2

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking

2012-02-21 Thread Alec Warner
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El lun, 20-02-2012 a las 20:02 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió: >> On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:17:30 -0800 >> Zac Medico wrote: >> >> > On 02/20/2012 05:03 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: >> > > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:34:14 +0100 >> > > Pacho Ramos wrote: >> > > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking

2012-02-21 Thread Pacho Ramos
El lun, 20-02-2012 a las 20:02 -0600, Ryan Hill escribió: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:17:30 -0800 > Zac Medico wrote: > > > On 02/20/2012 05:03 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: > > > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:34:14 +0100 > > > Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > > > >> I don't know if this has been discussed before but, wh

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking

2012-02-21 Thread Xavier Miller
Hello, Quoting Ryan Hill : gcc is slotted. Is there any reason why we can't simply make grub depend on a working slot of gcc and set CC appropriately in the ebuild? We have no way of forcing an ebuild to be built with a particular version of GCC. This is on purpose, and there are both technic

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking

2012-02-20 Thread Richard Yao
> I took a look at the problem cited in your bug report. I suggest > compiling sys-boot/grub with CFLAGS="-O0 -ggdb3", attaching gdb to > grub-install and then watching what happens in the debugger. If you > compare runs with a GCC 4.5.3 built stage2 and a GCC 4.6.2 built > stage2, you should be ab

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking

2012-02-20 Thread Richard Yao
Ryan, I took a look at the problem cited in your bug report. I suggest compiling sys-boot/grub with CFLAGS="-O0 -ggdb3", attaching gdb to grub-install and then watching what happens in the debugger. If you compare runs with a GCC 4.5.3 built stage2 and a GCC 4.6.2 built stage2, you should be able

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking

2012-02-20 Thread Alexandre Rostovtsev
On Mon, 2012-02-20 at 19:03 -0600, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:34:14 +0100 > Pacho Ramos wrote: > > > I don't know if this has been discussed before but, what issues are > > preventing us from unmasking gcc-4.6 (and think on a near > > stabilization)? > > > > I have read hardmask m

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking

2012-02-20 Thread Zac Medico
On 02/20/2012 05:03 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:34:14 +0100 > Pacho Ramos wrote: > >> I don't know if this has been discussed before but, what issues are >> preventing us from unmasking gcc-4.6 (and think on a near >> stabilization)? >> >> I have read hardmask message but it sim

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: About gcc-4.6 unmasking

2012-02-20 Thread Matt Turner
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:03 PM, Ryan Hill wrote: > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:34:14 +0100 > Pacho Ramos wrote: > >> I don't know if this has been discussed before but, what issues are >> preventing us from unmasking gcc-4.6 (and think on a near >> stabilization)? >> >> I have read hardmask message b