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[Flavien Bridault <f.bridault AT fra.net>]

Le Jeudi 24 Février 2005 19:23, Arwed von Merkatz a écrit :
> 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.
>
Well my box is still compiling... 12 hours now... All qt-related spells were 
broken for instance... I don't have the exact number but dozens of spells are 
broken (xorg for example...). But you're right, I could boot however... ;-)

So it seems you don't want to warn the user and anyway this is not the way it 
should be done ihmo. WHY g++ didn't triggered a check_self() on all these 
spells ?? I know this is not done in all c++ spells and that it would be a 
hard work, but finally would'nt it be the real solution ? We do it for other 
spells why not here ? Or did I forgot something ??
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Flavien Bridault
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