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  • From: flux <flux AT sourcemage.org>
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  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] RFC: combining all gcc frontends into a single spell
  • Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:33:01 -0400

Peng Chang (Charles) (chp516 AT gmail.com) wrote [09.07.23 21:16]:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 06:25:19PM +0200, Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
> > Sounds good for future updates. This means we have an upgrade issue
> > though, as going from split spells to combined spell broke due to this
> > dependency cycle. This needs to be resolved before it can go to test
> > grimoire.
>
> The upgrade from split spells to combined spell is no more difficult to
> deal with than upgrading gcc from split to split.
> cast -r gmp and disable c++
> cast gcc with g++
> cast -r gmp and enable c++
> Then we'll have the combined gcc.
>
> Charles

I believe what Arwed was getting at was that this should be an automated
process. Users should not be required to cast -r for a pure upgrade (in
an ideal world).

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