[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: news item for the 17.0 profiles

2017-10-12 Thread Duncan
Duncan posted on Wed, 11 Oct 2017 03:31:55 + as excerpted: > Andreas K. Huettel posted on Tue, 10 Oct 2017 21:02:32 +0200 as > excerpted: > >> Switching the profile changes the settings for building gcc (it >> switches a use-flag from forced-off to forced-on). A gcc-6 built with >> the 17.0 p

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: news item for the 17.0 profiles

2017-10-10 Thread Duncan
Andreas K. Huettel posted on Tue, 10 Oct 2017 21:02:32 +0200 as excerpted: > Am Dienstag, 10. Oktober 2017, 04:10:13 CEST schrieb Duncan: > >> One thing isn't clear here. Is this sequence necessary due to the >> profile switch itself, because the /profile/ enables PIE by default, or >> is it gcc

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: news item for the 17.0 profiles

2017-10-10 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Am Dienstag, 10. Oktober 2017, 04:10:13 CEST schrieb Duncan: > One thing isn't clear here. Is this sequence necessary due to the > profile switch itself, because the /profile/ enables PIE by default, or > is it gcc-6.4+ that enables PIE, and the profile simply forces the PIE > default by forcing

[gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: news item for the 17.0 profiles

2017-10-09 Thread Duncan
Andreas K. Huettel posted on Mon, 09 Oct 2017 22:58:22 +0200 as excerpted: > Please consider switching from your current 13.0 profile to the > corresponding 17.0 profile soon after GCC-6.4.0 has been stabilized on > your architecture. The 13.0 profiles will be deprecated and removed in > the near