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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2005 at 07:16:18PM +0100, Flavien Bridault wrote:
> > A warning to everyone on test grimoire who can't afford to recompile a
> > lot of stuff right now: gcc 3.4 comes with yet another binary
> > incompatible libstdc++, so all c++ programs have to be recompiled after
> > it's updated. If you don't want to do all those recompiles now you
> > should put gcc on hold.
> I think this would be good to prevent the user INSIDE the spell, maybe as I 
> did with udev. If someone didn't read your mail, cast gcc and then reboot, 
> he 
> will have a completely broken system.
> 
> About this, I'm currently doing a "cleanse" to recompile all spells by the 
> new 
> libstdc++. But a lot of spells are failing because they are not checked 
> according to their dependencies. For example, the spells sdl_image, 
> sdl_mixer, etc... failed because sdl is checked farther. As well for spells 
> depending on qt. Is there a way to do this ?? Or would it be rather a 
> feature 
> request ??
> 

Spells are checked from the bottom of the depends tree up, in other
words if foo depends on bar, we check bar before we check foo, if the
depends tree is broken, incomplete, or in some other way wrong theres
nothing cleanse can do about it.

-Andrew


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