Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: add a compiler-version entry to pkg db

[Federico Ferri <mescalinum@gentoo.org>]

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Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> On 01:44 Tue 09 Dec     , Federico Ferri wrote:
>> today I hit this annoyance, because my laptop hung in the middle
>> of an 'emerge -e @world' (checking that my world set compiles
>> with gcc-4.3... stopped at ~ 300 of 700  :S )
>>
>> I was looking for an entry in /var/db/pkg/<cat/pkg>/ that could
>> have told me the compiler used to build the package, but couldn't
>> find any. indeed it would be a fairly useful feature to have,
>> both for testing purposes, and for user's everyday maintenance.
>>
>> please criticize this with anything constructive you can think
>> of.
>
> As I mentioned on IRC, I think this isn't a very general use case
> (given the existence of --resume, --keep-going, etc.) so code to
> accomplish it
the point was not resuming my emerge because the laptop hung.
was more like: tracking which compiler built which package or vice-versa
> would be better put into a custom portage bashrc than into portage
>  proper.
yes, that makes sense.
it could be an external tool, like revdep-rebuild is, which queries
compiler by pkg, and eventually rebuilds packages (not) matching a
certain compiler.

but to accomplish this, an information about the compiler (in the pkg
record) should be there.
something like /var/db/pkg/<cat>/<pkg>/COMPILER

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Federico Ferri
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