From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AAB10139694 for ; Wed, 3 May 2017 19:06:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 45F6AE0CB5; Wed, 3 May 2017 19:06:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (mail.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F0BF2E0B60 for ; Wed, 3 May 2017 19:06:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.195] (CPE002401f30b73-CM7cb21bc3014a.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [174.116.156.189]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: axs) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EB5013416A5 for ; Wed, 3 May 2017 19:06:21 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: gcc-6.x status inquiry To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <20170503164311.GA20929@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> <1187ac04-2b02-6c21-e7a0-d46cf846e2a3@gentoo.org> <71687537-4bd1-4489-9d80-246d8e2c1472@gentoo.org> <20170503184215.GA21428@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> From: Ian Stakenvicius Message-ID: <4598ba75-073a-d717-21cd-c3df9a5925d9@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 3 May 2017 15:06:19 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.1.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20170503184215.GA21428@whubbs1.gaikai.biz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: aff71723-139c-426d-a1ea-801980b33412 X-Archives-Hash: 65b7fb083876b36234aeff32cbb31725 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