Re: GRUB 2.06

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

On 4/20/21 7:50 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
> My 2 cents:
> 
> If a distro starts shipping a new version of GCC, they should really
> test their packages first and patch them as needed.
> 
> If an end user installs a new version of GCC manually, I would hope
> they are smart enough to know that it might break things.
> 
> If an end user builds GRUB manually, they are also responsible for
> applying any patches that are necessary for their toolchain.

Fully agree on all points. And while I cannot speak for Gentoo, I know that
Fedora, Debian and openSUSE did full archive rebuilds with gcc-10 when it
was released.

Adrian

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