Hi, have you considered to stabilize gcc:4.9 instead possibly 4.9.2 ? I'm not really suggesting to do so, but seem that most of the problems of 4.9.1 are the same of 4.8.3 so maybe it's worth considering.
Il 11/10/2014 13:57, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." ha scritto: > In my earlier thread > <http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/92113> I explored the > possibility to stabilize gcc-4.8, and we have that going now in > <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516152>. > > Meanwhile I just applied a small patch for chromium-38 that allows it to > compile with gcc-4.7. It's in stable now. > > We'll really need gcc-4.8 in stable within 6-12 weeks from now. Chromium > starts making heavy use of C++11 language features, see > <http://chromium-cpp.appspot.com/> . I don't realistically see us being > able to just patch chromium to work around that. for 4.9.2 the 6-12 week window could be a problem > I'd like to ask for every possible help with > <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461954> blockers on amd64 and > x86. There are harder problems on arches like MIPS, but newer gcc is not > as urgent there I think. > > One highlight is <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513386>. It > occurs only when the user has gcc-4.7 and 4.8 installed simultaneously > and using 4.7 as the active compiler. It's not obvious to me whether we > have to support this (while it's obviously better to support rather than > not, it's webkit-gtk in a specific and rare configuration versus > chromium with security updates in all configurations). > > There is also <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=500966> which may > be more tricky. I could reproduce that bug. It's also about webkit-gtk. > > There are couple more blockers of > <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461954>. If you can, please > take a look and help. I think several other distros are using gcc-4.8 or > later now, they may have hit the same problems and either have patches > or something that could also help us. There may be some upstream patches > to be backported etc. > > Paweł >
