From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E8een-0000dp-EE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:54:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7QDpP4s018007; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:51:25 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j7QDm539024936 for ; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:48:05 GMT Received: from vapier by smtp.gentoo.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1E8eaG-0006ME-KH for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:49:28 +0000 Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 13:49:28 +0000 From: Mike Frysinger To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] why does gcc-3.4.x depend on gcc-3.3.x / libstdc++? Message-ID: <20050826134928.GA23434@toucan.gentoo.org> References: <623652d5050826021471a91d8e@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <623652d5050826021471a91d8e@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: e7cf4cc8-8666-4ab6-9721-3522d0779383 X-Archives-Hash: 0743a93e7360ecb6d6ea16a2ead36531 On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 10:14:04AM +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > Subject says it all - is there any reason why 3.4.4 installs either > gcc-3.3* or libstdc++-v3 built with gcc-3.3? because i got tired of people complaining about broken systems when they emerged gcc-3.4.4 and cleaned out all gcc-3.3.x versions from their system > Is it possible to compile > a native 3.4 system without the old gcc if I don't need binary > compatibility? i just add libstdc++-v3 to my package.provided in /etc/portage/profile/ and call it a day i dont really see there being a clean solution until we have portage support to track ABI dependencies -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list