On Wednesday, November 7, 2012, Francois Bissey wrote: > On 07/11/12 21:08, Konstantin Tokarev wrote: > > > > > > 07.11.2012, 07:03, "François Bissey" > > <francois.bis...@canterbury.ac.nz<javascript:;> > >: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have currently a prefix on OS X and I use gcc-apple. I tried a couple > >> of times to use vanilla gcc which is currently masked but I had > problems. > > > > You can unmask it and emerge, than use it as your default portage > compiler. > > > > Yes and it will regularly fail to compile stuff. I have tried it this > afternoon and it failed to compile glib (that was gcc-4.6.3) it is > masked for a reason. I am just wondering what we want to do long term > because vanilla gcc seem to be unreliable.
"We" do nothing. You can poke upstream of your favorite project to make the software work with older compilers or provide patches. It is just unreasonable to ask the downstream enabler to fix random projects. -Jeremy > > Francois > >
