On Sun, Apr 01, 2018 at 05:04:03PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > Your new GCC builds binaries such as libgcc1 and libstdc++6. That is going to > affect nearly all the archive at runtime, and I wonder if it's the right > approach. We introduced GCC 4.8 in wheezy, named gcc-mozilla (a bad name I > know) > which didn't build these libraries, so it didn't affect the rest of the > archive, > which was still building with GCC 4.6 or 4.7 (depending on the architecture). > > One option here would be to use your gcc-4.9 with the gcc-mozilla packaging to > build everything in one binary, we'd only need to make sure that > firefox/thunderbird are still happy about it. Perhaps that's just complicating > things, so I'm not opposed to introducing gcc-4.9. Just wondering about the > consequences of the library updates. >
That is interesting. I had not considered that particular aspect. It definitely sounds like caution is warranted here. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
