[gentoo-user] about updating gcc & wiki pages

[gentoo-user] about updating gcc & wiki pages

[Harry Putnam]

Can anyone offer an informed opinion as to whether the wiki pages at:
   https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Upgrading_GCC

Are current and apply as well to the newest gcc versions?

I am not having any problem so far (only just compiling as I wrrite)
but I have a hunch those pages may be getting a bit long in the tooth,
and just hoping to head off any problems that may have occured in newest
versions.

Re: [gentoo-user] about updating gcc & wiki pages

[J. Roeleveld]

On Thursday, August 27, 2015 03:53:03 AM Harry Putnam wrote:
> Can anyone offer an informed opinion as to whether the wiki pages at:
>    https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Upgrading_GCC
> 
> Are current and apply as well to the newest gcc versions?
> 
> I am not having any problem so far (only just compiling as I wrrite)
> but I have a hunch those pages may be getting a bit long in the tooth,
> and just hoping to head off any problems that may have occured in newest
> versions.

I tend to only do the "short version".
Removing the old version is handled by " emerge -va --depclean "

--
Joost

[gentoo-user] about updating gcc & wiki pages

[wraeth]

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On 27/08/15 17:53, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Can anyone offer an informed opinion as to whether the wiki pages 
> at: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Upgrading_GCC
> 
> Are current and apply as well to the newest gcc versions?

You may not have noticed but at the bottom of each wiki page there is
a timestamp:

"This page was last modified on 11 August 2015, at 20:29."

While I don't take this as a verification of correctness, I usually do
consider it an indication of not-completely-wrongness.

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[gentoo-user] Re: about updating gcc & wiki pages

[Harry Putnam]

wraeth <wraeth@wraeth.id.au> writes:

> On 27/08/15 17:53, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Can anyone offer an informed opinion as to whether the wiki pages
>> at: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Upgrading_GCC
>>
>> Are current and apply as well to the newest gcc versions?
>
> You may not have noticed but at the bottom of each wiki page there is
> a timestamp:

Ha... thanks for the nudge ... somewhere in the back of my pea brain,
I think I once new that...

So, if the emerge of gcc ever finishes ... hehe.  I'll follow on thru.

> "This page was last modified on 11 August 2015, at 20:29."
>
> While I don't take this as a verification of correctness, I usually do
> consider it an indication of not-completely-wrongness.

At the very least, someone with enough privileges has visited the page.

[gentoo-user] Re: about updating gcc & wiki pages

[James]

Harry Putnam <reader <at> newsguy.com> writes:


> >> Can anyone offer an informed opinion as to whether the wiki pages
> >> at: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Upgrading_GCC

First glance it seems updated. 

> >> Are current and apply as well to the newest gcc versions?

GCC-5.2? Several folks have posted to a thread that gcc-5.2
is working great....


> > You may not have noticed but at the bottom of each wiki page there is
> > a timestamp:

> Ha... thanks for the nudge ... somewhere in the back of my pea brain,
> I think I once new that...
> 
> So, if the emerge of gcc ever finishes ... hehe.  I'll follow on thru.
> 
> > "This page was last modified on 11 August 2015, at 20:29."
> >
> > While I don't take this as a verification of correctness, I usually do
> > consider it an indication of not-completely-wrongness.

True. What I find is often the fringe or edge cases are not discussed.
It's not that folks responsible for the pages do not want that sort
of extra information, particular from proven, resourceful community members,
it that those folks fail to file doc bugs on bgo proposing
those enhancements. YOU can do that minimally, and before long
(I think) you'll be able to edit some pages either directly or
post them as attachments to the corresponding bug report.


> At the very least, someone with enough privileges has visited the page.

More work on the accuracy and completeness of the gentoo wiki is
definitely warranted, so just file bgo reports of your ideas for enhancements.



Welcome back, Harry......


James