[arch-general] [arch-dev-public] gcc-4.4.0 toolchain rebuild with query about gcc-gcj and related packages

[Jan de Groot]

On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 11:33 +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 26. April 2009 11:27:29 schrieb Thomas Bächler:
> > I think among the Arch userbase, virtually nobody uses anything older
> > than 2.6.27. We always announce to be "bleeding-edge", so IMO there
> > should be no problem in supporting newer kernels only.
> 
> So those who use older kernels (why ever) just need to recompile glibc with 
> their favourite settings? That would be acceptable imho.

So, if I'm updating from a system that hasn't been rebooted for half a
year or so, I won't even get a chance to do so:

pacman -S glibc, wait a few minutes for the update, and then everything
says:
"FATAL: Kernel too old".

Don't do it, this will break lots of systems.