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

[Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org>]

On 03/05/17 02:42 PM, William Hubbs wrote:
> 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
> 

No, i'm good with keywording gcc-6 still.  I'm just not Ok with 
firefox and tbird and others being p.masked for removal simply because 
they don't build.

Also its worth noting that the gcc-6.3 build failure is apparently not 
absolute, there are people that have built mozilla stuff fine with 6.3