On Sun, 2018-04-01 at 13:37 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sun, Apr 01, 2018 at 05:04:03PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > > > > Your new GCC builds binaries such as libgcc1 and libstdc++6. That is going to > > affect nearly all the archive at runtime, and I wonder if it's the right > > approach. We introduced GCC 4.8 in wheezy, named gcc-mozilla (a bad name I know) > > which didn't build these libraries, so it didn't affect the rest of the archive, > > which was still building with GCC 4.6 or 4.7 (depending on the architecture). > > > > One option here would be to use your gcc-4.9 with the gcc-mozilla packaging to > > build everything in one binary, we'd only need to make sure that > > firefox/thunderbird are still happy about it. Perhaps that's just complicating > > things, so I'm not opposed to introducing gcc-4.9. Just wondering about the > > consequences of the library updates. > > > > That is interesting. I had not considered that particular aspect. It > definitely sounds like caution is warranted here. I would suggest looking at how non-default compiler versions are built in other suites. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Make three consecutive correct guesses and you will be considered an expert.
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