User:NeddySeagoon/Profile 17.0

What the 17.0 Profile Does
The 17.0 Profile depends on gcc-6.x, forces Position Independent Executables (pie) everywhere and breaks random things. Its far from stable and changes may be added/deleted/modified/reverted at any emerge --sync without warning

Position Independent Executables
That change breaks all the static libraries that are installed. I'm not aware of a command to rebuild static libraries but there probably will be one before the new profile goes stable.

I will be rebuilding @world because I'm doing other things with my Gentoo, just because I can.


 * gcc-7.1
 * Gold linker
 * Old Fashioned Gentoo Install
 * ~amd64 no-multilib with a few hard masked packages

Should I try the 17.0 Profile?
If you need to ask, then No.

Progress
1117 Packages to build

What Fails to Build/Install
Reason or reasons unknown ...

>>> emerge (65 of 1117) dev-embedded/u-boot-tools-2017.05 to / >>> emerge (195 of 1050) media-libs/libid3tag-0.15.1b-r4 to / >>> emerge (37 of 855) sys-apps/busybox-1.26.2-r1 to / >>> emerge (441 of 816) dev-util/catalyst-3.0_rc1 to / >>> emerge (47 of 375) cross-powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu/gcc-6.3.0 to /

www-client/firefox-53.0.3, mail-client/thunderbird-52.1.1  and palemoon all have know build issues with gcc-7.1

What Works
TBD