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

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 04:30:07PM +0200, Jaka Kranjc wrote:
> On Tuesday 25 of August 2009 16:11:11 Peng Chang (Charles) wrote:
> > I believe the reason that the merged gcc spell doesn't get into master
> > is the transition issue. IMHO, this is not a problem at all.
> >
> > As I mentioned in an earlier message, I resolved the circular dependency
> > by doing:
> > cast -r gmp and disable c++
> > cast gcc with g++
> > cast -r gmp and enable c++
> >
> > I admit that this process is not within normal user experience, but I
> > also have to point out that from what I can see from bug 15166, updating
> The bug is not fixed not because the method is not known, but because 
> nobody 
> took the time. Spell updates should be as fluent as possible and we haven't 
> done everything possible here yet.

I agree that this update should not need manual intervention, especially
for stuff as low in the dependency tree/chain/graph/labyrinth as gcc. If
gmp c++ support is the offender, a possible solution is to include gmp
inside the first gcc build and then replace it later.
I'd rather have a few duplicates installed by spells than needing such a
manual process to get a working compiler.


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