From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nl0wz-0007QS-Mb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:13:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AAD9CE09B4; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:13:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f222.google.com (mail-fx0-f222.google.com [209.85.220.222]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CB69E09B4 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:13:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm22 with SMTP id 22so120122fxm.26 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:13:11 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=WQMK++eSea1oVK+bcqeJR++g4cyZWi+ZRHlHsx6W04I=; b=oLsxWZ7cHX0yX6upg1Y99aowKVAc0Czbt3nDur5JoraJ0PpuhijRrabuNlSfi5mD8W RZ2Ykp89RTLo16IZ1GqhNY2TjtPsdwAL32ofn0ISGOFOoz+Vw/iCkLjystv/riBtqo5s OfRx3MqfhEOMEv5xQX3JR2q/ge/v8dxxDzd2U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Wcc5UiPCeCppF1OhafBopo6g5tvNE2X90k+Lpak1yzV5DjOy+O3uP7ZrEhnPmfOhY8 jXF/6J9xLlCQdaNvC3o4kzMW1j9tM8HgpEpkLrZlwXKUyMJunzNmsPD3vbG5nKB20oGM gDkTOoRq9u++0ICMg043uQ4NvX0aBqK+f4h48= Received: by 10.102.246.9 with SMTP id t9mr325562muh.109.1267193591536; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:13:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.2? (cpc2-cmbg14-0-0-cust882.cmbg.cable.ntl.com [213.106.91.115]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm669607mum.6.2010.02.26.06.13.10 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:13:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B87CDA3.5060507@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:33:23 +0100 From: bn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091224) 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 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] libtool 2.x upgrade References: <4B87209D.8010704@gmail.com> <20100226090743.18fd7f26@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100226090743.18fd7f26@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a96ca246-aa27-44c5-a674-8a354be88cf9 X-Archives-Hash: 5bcb7af2da0dd7e19ac21abf1977d2a5 Neil Bothwick ha scritto: > On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:15:09 +0100, bn wrote: > >> I have a stable x86 system that requires still a bit of updating, among >> those libtool and gcc. Since I need the system to be usable *now* for >> work reasons, I don't feel like updating gcc and rebuilding it all with >> an emerge -e system / emerge -e world, but more and more packages want >> to upgrade to libtool 2.x > > GCC is slotted, so you can install the latest version but switch back to > the old version instantly if it gives you problems. Unless the is an ABI > change, which hasn't happened for a while, it is not necessary to rebuild > everything. > That's exactly what I wanted to know. But it strikes me that from libtool 1.x to 2.x there's no ABI change. Is this correct? I don't know exactly what libtool does (I'm not a C programmer -well, apart from very basic stuff), but in general major version updates break compatibility, therefore my concern. m.