On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Rick "Zero_Chaos" Farina <[email protected]> wrote: > You are misremembering that we are using preserve_libs to save our butts > when mpc is updated and gcc is still linked to the old mpc. I feel very > uncomfortable as the recommendation of preserve-libs is to remerge as > soon as possible not "build a whole system like this". Is there an > actual failure here? Not that I've seen yet, but it's an awkward way to > build in my opinion.
Keeping the old libs seems perfectly fine, since it's in a seed stage that we don't care about after stage1 is complete. An unnecessary build of gcc may not matter much on a relatively fast amd64, but it's going to be a pain on a bunch of slower architectures. And on mips/multilib it'll be even worse since we get to build the libraries for three ABIs.
