Am Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:50:57 -0500 schrieb "Aaron Griffin" <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com>:
Thanks Andy, I will test and signoff by Friday, but I have a quick question first (I trust your opinion here) - do you think these changes warrant a rebuild of [core] entirely? I got a personal email wondering the same - if you think it is a good idea, I'd be more than willing to do some of the work, but if you think it's useless, then we won't do it.
We don't need to rebuild whole repositories with every major glibc/gcc update. It's recommended to gain some speed improvements but it's not a must. So far we did it only once with the core repo. This glibc release this time has some improvements for x86_64 and gcc4.3.x had some speedups at all. But nothing worth to spend much time on it. Once we have too much manpower or good scripts for using something like automated makeworld or even a dedicated build machine we can recompile even [extra] where some packages are still from 2004. Right now we should focus on other stuff. -Andy