From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F283B138334 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2018 18:26:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CEB76E09CE; Fri, 30 Nov 2018 18:25:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from turkos.aspodata.se (turkos.aspodata.se [192.5.36.36]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C698E09BE for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2018 18:25:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from turkos.aspodata.se (localhost.aspodata.se [127.0.0.1]) by turkos.aspodata.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C94B862A868 for ; Fri, 30 Nov 2018 19:25:47 +0100 (CET) Received: by turkos.aspodata.se (Postfix, from userid 1000) id EAAE4862A86A; Fri, 30 Nov 2018 19:25:46 +0100 (CET) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.8.0 04/21/2012 with nmh-1.6 X-Exmh-Isig-CompType: comp X-Exmh-Isig-Folder: inbox From: karl@aspodata.se To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] emerging older compilers Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Message-Id: <20181130182546.EAAE4862A86A@turkos.aspodata.se> Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 19:25:46 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP X-Archives-Salt: 6545ee48-ef04-4f02-9040-b0ea438f4156 X-Archives-Hash: de1333bd18124e32bf81a346898db7b3 For testing purposes, I would like to install older compilers, e.g. testing with older kernels. I have tried to install e.g. gcc-5.4.0-r4, gcc-4.9.4, and gcc-3.4.6-r2.ebuild (package.unmask is upd. for theese), but it fails. You usually install a newer compiler with the older (and that is well tested), but has anyone tried it the other way ? Regards, /Karl Hammar ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Aspö Data Lilla Aspö 148 S-742 94 Östhammar Sweden