We had a chat about this in #gentoo-dev the other night. I might come up with a solution as part of the ZFS stuff that I am doing, but it won't happen for at least a month.
With that said, it doesn't look like GRUB is the only blocker: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=gcc-4.6 On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Pacho Ramos <pa...@gentoo.org> wrote: > El lun, 20-02-2012 a las 21:41 +0100, Justin escribió: >> On 20.02.2012 21:34, 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 simply explains that it's masked for >> > testing purposes :-/ >> > >> > Thanks a lot for the info >> >> Here was the last one >> >> http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_b6db68b41a4b318ea2122fb982c10dfb.xml >> >> For me it worked fine for months now. >> >> justin >> >> > > Bleh, looks like grub is blocking this :(, will need to wait then (or > maybe move to grub2 ;))
