Re: [gentoo-user] Packages that do not compile.

[David Harel <hareldvd@ergolight-sw.com>]

Naga Toro wrote:

> On Tuesday 08 May 2007 16.26.07 David Harel wrote:
>> Looking in: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml Code Listing
>> 2.2 I have to do emerge -eav system and emerge -eav world. Isn't that
>> rebuilding the entire system?
>
> First. please don't use html and top posting.
Sorry about that. The recipient gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org is set in 
my address book to "plain text" but thunderbird seems to ignore it.
>
> Second, as stated just above that passage, it is not nessecary but 
> recommended.
Here is a quotation from the doc:

To be completely safe that your system is in a sane state, you must 
rebuild the toolchain and then world to make use of the new compiler.

(Now how do I make the word MUST above underlined and bold?) ;-)


> You must however follow listing 2.1 and I would recomend keeping the old gcc 
> installed untill all packages have been upgraded/reemerged just in case.
>

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Regards.

David Harel,

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