From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from outbound4.mail.tds.net (outbound4.mail.tds.net [216.170.230.94]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4AMc08e021254 for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 22:38:01 GMT Received: from cerberus.oppresses.us (h69-21-248-52.69-21.unk.tds.net [69.21.248.52]) by outbound4.mail.tds.net (8.13.4/8.12.2) with ESMTP id j4AMbvQg025505 for ; Tue, 10 May 2005 17:38:00 -0500 (CDT) Received: by cerberus.oppresses.us (Postfix, from userid 500) id 179274AECB; Tue, 10 May 2005 18:37:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 18:37:56 -0400 From: Jon Portnoy To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-core] dev-lang/icc and dev-lang/ifc candidates for removal Message-ID: <20050510223756.GA10756@cerberus.oppresses.us> References: <20050510053621.GG26049@exodus.wit.org> <42805257.1090601@gentoo.org> <4280EF59.4050309@wis.kuleuven.be> <4280F817.6060402@gentoo.org> <1115755908.27166.12.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1115755908.27166.12.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Archives-Salt: b5f08fd1-0295-4952-8775-cd4fecfad269 X-Archives-Hash: 386e0a469d921fc020952c11bacc32a4 On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 04:11:48PM -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Tue, 2005-05-10 at 20:06 +0200, Danny van Dyk wrote: > > icc/ifc use flags: > > * These are scary. Using a different compiler should not be achieved > > by setting a useflag, neither local nor global one. > > You are correct. However, it might be necessary to patch something that > won't compile with icc, but does compile with gcc. I think this is the > primary reason for the icc USE flag. > Yes, it is. As far as I know the icc USE flag doesn't actually change your compiler anywhere (it shouldn't) -- Jon Portnoy avenj/irc.freenode.net -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list