Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 5.3

[Paul Colquhoun <paulcol@andor.dropbear.id.au>]

On Fri, 25 Dec 2015 12:40:48 walt wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 10:18:27 -0500
> 
> Alan Grimes <ALONZOTG@verizon.net> wrote:
> > Hey, thanks for putting out gcc 5.3...
> > 
> > Unfortunately, it fails to bootstrap on my machine. I am getting
> > differences between the stage 2 and stage 3 compilers and it's
> > dying... =(
> 
> I'm waiting for 5.3.1 before I even try to install it on my main
> desktop machine.  But I've installed it in a virtual gentoo ~amd64
> machine, so I know that the failure you are seeing was introduced when
> the 'jit' useflag was added to the gcc ebuild.
> 
> You can work around the failure by installing 5.3.0 with the -jit
> useflag (which should succeed) and *then* switch to 5.3.0 using
> gcc-config before re-installing 5.3.0 with +jit.
> 
> David mentioned that he succeeded by using gcc-4.9 but I had to use the
> workaround I described above.


I disabled the 'jit' flag for gcc, and 5.3.0 compiled cleanly.

Now to turn the flag back on and see if that works.


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