From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FyaAd-0008MG-0I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 06 Jul 2006 20:09:55 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k66K84VW007091; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 20:08:04 GMT Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu (lennier.cc.vt.edu [198.82.162.213]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k66K3IBd002129 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 20:03:18 GMT Received: from vivi.cc.vt.edu (IDENT:mirapoint@evil-vivi.cc.vt.edu [10.1.1.12]) by lennier.cc.vt.edu (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k66JpabX001205 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2006 16:03:16 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (blacksburg-bsr1-69-170-32-128.chvlva.adelphia.net [69.170.32.128]) by vivi.cc.vt.edu (MOS 3.8.0-FCS) with ESMTP id FTE13790 (AUTH spbecker); Thu, 6 Jul 2006 16:03:17 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <44AD6C8E.8060300@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:03:26 -0400 From: "Stephen P. Becker" User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060629) 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: Gentoo vs GNU toolchain (was Re: [gentoo-dev] Replacing cpu-feature USE flags) References: <200607061252.33028@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <44ACF6C9.7010209@gentoo.org> <1152200486.605.35.camel@onyx> <20060706190618.GB3257@gentoo.org> <20060706214220.2f2c6059@c1358217.kevquinn.com> <20060706195555.GA3796@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20060706195555.GA3796@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id k66K84XM007091 X-Archives-Salt: 14c75f21-92cb-49d9-a2bb-f38f32e66211 X-Archives-Hash: 7522db8574b2e156aa363c392d7904af Harald van D=C4=B3k wrote: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 09:42:20PM +0200, Kevin F. Quinn wrote: >> On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 21:06:18 +0200 >> Harald van D=C4=B3k wrote: >> >>> The GNU toolchain is not supported by Gentoo, and in fact gets >>> actively broken with unsupported command-line options. Only the GNU >>> toolchain as modified by Gentoo's toolchain guys is supported, >>> unfortunately. >> What exactly is it about the toolchain supplied with Gentoo that cause= s >> you problems? >=20 > I don't have a lot of trust in Gentoo's patches, as they have resulted > in completely and utterly unusable ld, and (minor) data loss due to a > miscompilation by Gentoo's gcc, in the past. Also, being able to check > whether your own software compiles with a GNU toolchain is to me a good > thing. Isn't this why gcc et al support the "vanilla" USE flag? -Steve --=20 gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list