On Saturday 09 June 2007 11:46:52 Marko Kocić wrote:
> Why does sun-jdk needs gcc-3.3.6 and and libstdc++-3.3?
> As I understand sun-jdk-1.6.0.01 is a binary package, and java works
> just fine if downloaded and installed from Sun site, without portage.
>
> Since I don't have enough disk spac fro another gcc, is it possible to
> somehow let portage handle sun-jdk, but without additional gcc and
> libstdc++?

virtual/libstdc++-3.3 is a virtual that contains nothing but is provided by / 
depends on libstdc++-v3 OR gcc-3.x. Not both. Unfortunately bug #161953 
causes portage to think that as you already have a version of gcc(-4.x) 
installed and you don't have libstdc++-v3 installed that means you prefer 
gcc. The solution to that is to manually install libstdc++-v3 (even 
with --oneshot).

The reason is as you say that dev-java/sun-jdk:1.6 is a binary package that 
isn't ABI compatible with libstdc++.so.6 (from gcc-4.x). And as we don't have 
the source we cannot fix that with revdep-rebuild.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161953

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Bo Andresen