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authorSergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>2019-08-17 23:49:01 +0100
committerSergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>2019-08-17 23:56:07 +0100
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parentapp-editors/zile: Add conditional test restriction. (diff)
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base/package.use.force: force sys-devel/gcc[cxx]
Modern gcc needs c++ to boostrap. Self-hosted Gentoo system can't do it with USE=-cxx gcc. Historically toolchain.eclass prevented from disabling the flag by accident. Reported-by: Agostino Sarubbo Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/692126 Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>
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# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org> (2019-08-17)
+# USE=-cxx us a sure way to break native install as modern gcc
+# requires C++ to bootstrap. But in rare cases it's useful
+# to have a compiler not capable of C++, bug #692126.
+sys-devel/gcc cxx
+
# Andreas K. Hüttel <dilfridge@gentoo.org> (2019-04-14)
# Make sure glibc static libs are installed for now. Not installing
# them is an experimental feature and needs testing.