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Re:GCC 5 in Fedora by cozzyd on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @11:05PM (#9031516)
Will Gentoo users require a massive recompile due to the ABI change?
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Re:GCC 5 in Fedora by matteotom on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @11:43PM (#9031592)
Probably. See here [0] for more info. And Gentoo has some nice tools to help figure out what needs to be re-compiled.

Usually, my laptop can recompile @world (aka everything) overnight, so it's not too much of an issue.

[0] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Upgrading_GCC#ABI_Changes

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