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Bug 512634 - sys-devel/gcc: replace 4.9.0 with snapshot or 4.9.9999
Summary: sys-devel/gcc: replace 4.9.0 with snapshot or 4.9.9999
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 495124
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers
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Reported: 2014-06-07 04:12 UTC by David Heidelberg (okias)
Modified: 2014-06-07 18:30 UTC (History)
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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 :)