Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc 3.4.6 vs. 4.1.1

[Dale <dalek@exceedtech.net>]

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Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2007-02-15, Dale <dalek@exceedtech.net> wrote:
>
>   
>>> I know -- that's what I do now (except the other way around)
>>> for packages that require gcc 4.  I just figured I wait to do
>>> the big switch/recompile until I can get rid of 3.4 completely.
>>>
>>> I'll probably just do a clean reinstall at that point.  When I
>>> switched gcc from 3.2 to 3.3, it would have been a lot less
>>> work to just re-install from scratch.
>>>       
>> When I switched a while back, I found a script to do the recompile on
>> the forums that worked very well.  It is better than doing a system
>> twice then a world on top of that.  I have a copy of the script if you
>> would like to use it but it is on the forums somewhere.  I may can find
>> it.  I think it is in the documentation tips and tricks section, I think.
>>     
>
> I think I've seen it.  The last time I around I followed a
> script in a HOWTO using revdep-rebuild, and I ran into a lot of
> problems during the re-compile: there were about a half dozen
> packages that wouldn't rebuild.  Getting things going again
> required about two days of masking different versions of
> different packages (each of which required masking a bunch of
> dependencies to get compatible versions of everything).
>
>   

I had a few that wouldn't compile, not because of the script though, but
I just skipped those and fixed them later on.  I didn't have any more
trouble than I did when I did a emerge world without the script before
though.  I'm not sure I ever made it through a emerge world without
something failing.  I have a lot of packages so something has to go
wrong somewhere.

Dale

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