On Sat, 2014-09-13 at 05:54 +0000, Duncan wrote: > James Tyrer posted on Fri, 12 Sep 2014 22:21:04 -0700 as excerpted: > > > I usually go ahead and update GCC because if there is a building problem > > with anything on the LFS/BLFS sites, there is a fix for it. > > > > Now I see that GCC 4.9.1 has been released so there might have been some > > problems with the ".0" release. So, since LFS is going to upgrade to > > that, I will try building Qt-4.8.6 with that and see if it works. That > > will take a while even with a 4400+ processor. > > In general that has been my experience with gcc on gentoo as well; > there's usually fixes available, most often already found on gentoo's > bugzilla so I don't have to go far. =:^) [snip]
I didn't experience issues and didn't read that others experienced issues, when using 4.9.1. It seems that Arch Linux does use one 4.9 patch and two 4.8 patches to build 4.9 [1]. For release model distros such as *buntu, the only problem should be, that a new release from upstream doesn't fit to the outdated sources of the other packages provided by official repositories, but I'm not aware that 4.9 has any serious bugs. If I would have experienced an issue, I would have downgraded gcc, but I didn't. Please, don't misinform users about alleged issues, without evidences. Spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt about a stable release from upstream for a Linux core component is something very bad. [1] [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Q gcc-multilib gcc-multilib 4.9.1-1 [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ ls /var/abs/multilib/gcc-multilib/ gcc-4.8-filename-output.patch gcc-4.9-isl-0.13-hack.patch gcc-fortran.install gcc.install PKGBUILD gcc-4.8-lambda-ICE.patch gcc-ada.install gcc-go.install gcc-libs.install ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
