On Tue 19 Dec 2017 at 16:45:15 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > In addition. I keep gcc-6.4.0 since it can generate PIE-enabled > executables AND it it the last compiler with 'gcj'. > > I don't understand why 'pdftk' and packages depending on that have been > masked. > > They build and run fine here (profile 17.0)
If I read the =app-text/pdftk-2.02 ebuild correctly, it actually uses GCC 5.4.0, regardless of what your system compiler is (6.4.0 for profile 17.0): # We need gcc-5 because of Java export PATH="$(gcc-config -B 5.4.0):${PATH}" Sincerely, Bas -- Sebastiaan L. Zoutendijk | slzoutend...@gmail.com