From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Re: python-3.3.5 test failures on i686 in core-updates Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:02:20 +0200 Message-ID: <20140917110220.GB8046@debian.surfnet.iacbox> References: <87k353tq8b.fsf@yeeloong.lan> <87fvfrtepv.fsf@yeeloong.lan> <8761gmblrj.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56494) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUD0x-0001d8-Sr for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 07:03:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XUD0q-00011L-E8 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 07:03:11 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8761gmblrj.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Ludovic =?iso-8859-15?Q?Court=E8s?= Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 12:10:24PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > So now we have two option: > 1. Patch GCC 4.8.3 in core-updates, and rebuild the whole thing. > 2. Switch to GCC 4.9 as the default. > Option #1 is the safest, I think. As we need to rebuild everything anyway, how about trying out option 2? In any case, before doing that, we should merge core-updates back to activate the security fix for glibc. Andreas