Cannot build torbrowser-45.3.0_p604 with GCC 6.2.0 about torbrowser-overlay HOT 7 CLOSED

On my system I have 1209 packages. There are 15 packages other than torbrowser that I'm unable to build with gcc-6.2.0. For 8 of them I found patches online that fix build errors. For 7 of them I use workarounds such as adding -std=gnu++98 to CXXFLAGS. But now I can emerge the whole world with the -e option without interruptions. I can share my findings if you want.

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As you wish, but please remember that it is possible to keep two versions of GCC at the same time (for example 5.4.0 and 6.2.0). You can choose which version to use with gcc-config. There's even a small tool called gcc-switcher for telling Portage that certain packages should be compiled with a specific version of GCC using the /etc/portage/package.compilers configuration file. But unfortunately gcc-switcher didn't work on my system.

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@fturco offtopic question: can you build whole world with that gcc version?

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@fturco maybe it will be need for me in some future but right now I had no plans to switch, just was interested in compatibility overall.

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Does applying the firefox-45-gcc6.patch from the mozilla overlay fix the the issue? Are you able to test this?

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I successfully applied firefox-45-gcc6.patch instead of my own one. It works too.

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See also https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=582446

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