[Nix-dev] Re: Please update of stdenv-linux tarballs

[roconnor at theorem.ca]

On Sat, 30 Oct 2010, Ludovic Courtès wrote:

> OTOH, we don’t want to make bootstrapping too complex either, so there’s
> surely a trade-off here, and it probably needs to be considered on a
> case-by-case basis.  For this particular case, avoiding the upgrade
> would have been costly, I guess.

In this case, The cost of avoiding the upgrade is needing to compile gcc 
4.4 twice.  Once to be used to build the new glibc and a second time to 
built with the new glibc.

I personaly don't find this to be a big burden and it would be what I 
would do; however I'm not nearly as experienced as Eelco, so I trust his 
judgement.

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