Bug 512634

Summary:	sys-devel/gcc: replace 4.9.0 with snapshot or 4.9.9999
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	David Heidelberg (okias) <david>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description David Heidelberg (okias) 2014-06-07 04:12:24 UTC

I guess it's unusual, but gcc 4.9.0 shows up as really "problematic". I wonder, if we rather than can take some snapshot from [1] insted of 4.9.0 in tree.
Another solution would be provide 4.9.9999 (at least until 4.9.1).

Anyway, 4.9.0 won't be useful, because project like firefox and chrome miscopiles.

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/gcc-4_9-branch

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-06-07 12:00:28 UTC

Can't you simply use gcc-config to switch to a different compiler?

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 495124 ***

Comment 2 David Heidelberg (okias) 2014-06-07 18:30:00 UTC

(In reply to Jeroen Roovers from comment #1)
> Can't you simply use gcc-config to switch to a different compiler?

My point was about that 4.9.0  is generally useless release and we could rather offer users 4.9.0+, because even in case randomly picked fetch from 4.9.9999 since today give them better experience.

Of course, I'm familiar with gcc-config :)