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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

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.

Not completely broken, everything needed to boot is plain C or shell.

> 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 ??

It thought cleanse checked dependencies first if it finds a broken
spell.

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Arwed v. Merkatz                              Source Mage GNU/Linux developer
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