[gentoo-dev] How to merge GCC 3.1

[gentoo-dev] How to merge GCC 3.1

[Matteo Sasso]

I rsync'd lately but a 'emerge gcc -s' says my version of GCC (2.95.x) is the 
latest available, even though there are many ebuilds in sys-devel/gcc such as 
gcc-3.1.ebuild.
Why doesn't Portage see them? Is it because GCC>2.95 is not fully tested? How 
can I override so that I can have both versions on my system?

Thank you very much.
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icemaze@tiscalinet.it

RE: [gentoo-dev] How to merge GCC 3.1

[Ric Messier]

Because you are using the wrong profile.

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|> Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 7:45 AM
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|> Subject: [gentoo-dev] How to merge GCC 3.1
|> 
|> 
|> I rsync'd lately but a 'emerge gcc -s' says my version of 
|> GCC (2.95.x) is the 
|> latest available, even though there are many ebuilds in 
|> sys-devel/gcc such as 
|> gcc-3.1.ebuild.
|> Why doesn't Portage see them? Is it because GCC>2.95 is not 
|> fully tested? How 
|> can I override so that I can have both versions on my system?
|> 
|> Thank you very much.
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|> icemaze@tiscalinet.it
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Re: [gentoo-dev] How to merge GCC 3.1

[Christophe Vanfleteren]

On Tuesday 28 May 2002 13:45, Matteo Sasso wrote:
> I rsync'd lately but a 'emerge gcc -s' says my version of GCC (2.95.x) is
> the latest available, even though there are many ebuilds in sys-devel/gcc
> such as gcc-3.1.ebuild.
> Why doesn't Portage see them? Is it because GCC>2.95 is not fully tested?
> How can I override so that I can have both versions on my system?
>
> Thank you very much.

Default profile at the moment is still /usr/portage/profiles/default-1.0

You have to link /etc/make.profile to the profile you actually want:

rm /etc/make.profile 
ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-1.0-gcc3 /etc/make.profile

-- 
Christophe Vanfleteren

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to merge GCC 3.1

[Lars Pechan]

Did you change your profile? I.e. did you:

rm /etc/make.profile 

ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-1.0-gcc3 make.profile

In theory a ln -sf should do but that doesn't seem to do it for me.

HTH

/Lasse

PS. If you do a search in the archives or the forums you'll find quite a bit 
of info on what needs to be done.

On Tue, 28 May 2002 23:45, Matteo Sasso wrote:
> I rsync'd lately but a 'emerge gcc -s' says my version of GCC (2.95.x) is
> the latest available, even though there are many ebuilds in sys-devel/gcc
> such as gcc-3.1.ebuild.
> Why doesn't Portage see them? Is it because GCC>2.95 is not fully tested?
> How can I override so that I can have both versions on my system?
>
> Thank you very much.

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to merge GCC 3.1

[MadCoder]

> In theory a ln -sf should do but that doesn't seem to do it for me.
yes the '-f' option semmes not to work under gentoo.
it's a bit annoying

-- 
MadCoder (53 53)

"Pour réussir un examen, un étudiant doit lutter contre toutes les forces 
centrifuges qui peuvent le distraire de son travail."

        - T. de Montbrial

Re: [gentoo-dev] How to merge GCC 3.1

[Jack Morgan]

On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 01:45:05PM +0200, Matteo Sasso wrote:
> Why doesn't Portage see them? 

bacause they are masked, meaning they need more testing.

> How can I override so that I can have both versions on my system?

just edit /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask

-- 
jack_morgan