Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gcc-6.x status inquiry

[William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, May 03, 2017 at 02:00:26PM -0400, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
> On 03/05/17 01:58 PM, Luca Barbato wrote:
> > On 5/3/17 6:43 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> >> Hey all,
> >>
> >> I am asking about this because I have been asked to look into
> >> packaging software that has a specific requirement for >=gcc-6 in order
> >> to build [1].
> > 
> > As I said few times, we should dump gcc-5 sooner than later and any
> > software that does not build with gcc-6 should be p.masked and dropped
> > from the tree if there isn't a nice fix for it.
> 
> Just a heads-up, that p.mask list would happen to include firefox and 
> thunderbird right now.
 
 So if we don't p.mask those, is them breaking with gcc-6 still enough
 to keep gcc-6 out of ~? If not, I definitely +1 what lu_zero said,
 let's add ~keywords to gcc-6.

 William


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