GCC 4.6.x ETA in Gentoo ?

phalaxy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Aug 2008 Posts: 109

i am curious about the missing keywords in the gcc-4.6 packages in the portage tree.
will they become available soon?
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VoidMage · Advocate Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 4812

Well, it's already months past ETA.
See this bug for the showstopper.

q-parser · n00b Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 33 Location: Slovakia

Is there any news on this one? I checked the bug report, some guys confirmed that grub:0 works with gcc 4.6 on ~amd64 (last comment on 2012-06-01)
Can we safely keyword gcc 4.6?

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2012 8:10 pm Post subject:

q-parser,

If your boot loader works, why do you want to update it?

Mask grub at the version you have today and keyword gcc-4.6.x.
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loki_val · Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 4:57 am Post subject:

The bug report indicates that masking your grub:0 at installed version would be potentially bad. Specifically, <grub-0.97-r12:0 willl eat your kittens if you run grub-install and you're compiling grub on x86_64.

q-parser · n00b Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 33 Location: Slovakia

This is what I'm afraid of. I'd like to migrate to gcc 4.6.x to use optimizations for my i5 processor. On the other hand, I don't want to make the system unbootable.
It appears that I will have to stick with 4.5.x for the time being or move to other boot loader (which I'd rather not).

This must be one hell of an issue since a lot of great minds have not been able to crack it for more than a year.

^marcs · Apprentice Joined: 09 Mar 2005 Posts: 163 Location: Poland

I switched back to LILO and I'm perfectly happy with it - and with gcc-4.6 for few months now.
GRUB have it long coming, caused me too much headache in the past.

DaggyStyle · Advocate Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 4735

frankly, I don't understand what is the problem, I use gcc 4.6 with at least 0.97-r12 without any problems.
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Anon-E-moose · Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2012 11:17 am Post subject:

I don't understand why optimizations aren't just turned off for grub. It's only used once (at each boot).
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drhirsch · n00b Joined: 08 May 2004 Posts: 60 Location: Germany

gcc-4.6 works perfectly as long as you don't compile an old version of grub with it. As long as the bootloader works just keep it - I made sure that an update never would touch the old grub (version no longer in portage) on my harddrive with some hard masks. I don't remember which compiler compiled it some years ago, probably gcc-4.3 or something, its long gone anyway.
When the time came and I migrated to a new SSD, I used grub-2.0 with gcc-4.7, it worked like a charm. And again this grub will not change in any way until a new boot hard drive is needed.

DaggyStyle · Advocate Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 4735

lets stop saying wrong things, the mentioned bug is fixed.

more over, on my setup, amd64 + gcc 4.6.3 + grub legacy, all works ok.
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q-parser · n00b Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 33 Location: Slovakia

Thank you. I'll give it a shot.

nihil39 · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 9:43 am Post subject:

So, why is gcc 4.6 still keyworded if this infamous bug with grub appears to be solved?

Gcc is slotted, how can I select gcc 4.6 to compile my packages without unmerging the 4.5 version?

Thanks

XavierMiller · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:06 am Post subject:

Use GRUB2, grub-static, or an other boot loader (I switched to syslinux, simple, easy, stable, and working).
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nihil39 · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:13 am Post subject:

XavierMiller · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:23 am Post subject:

1) manpower problem: not enough people to fix the open bugs
2) use gcc-config
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nihil39 · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:32 am Post subject:

1. Mmhh, it looked like the only open bug was the one with grub. Any further news on that?
2. Thanks, so the migration should be painless, i guess. No critical packages to recompile

nihil39 · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 10:56 am Post subject:

Other question:

Is the flag -march=native the best possible? Is it in my case (core i3 2310M) equivalent to -march=corei7?

XavierMiller · Posted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 11:03 am Post subject:

I always use "native", it's too easy to configure

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