[gentoo-user] Gcc compiling, is this normal?

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Howdy,

I been noticing something weird when I upgrade gcc.  Is this normal?

root@fireball / # genlop -c

 Currently merging 2 out of 5

 * sys-devel/gcc-4.4.7

       current merge time: 6 seconds.
       ETA: 24 minutes and 27 seconds.

 Currently merging 3 out of 5

 * net-misc/curl-7.30.0

       current merge time: 7 seconds.
       ETA: 18 minutes and 50 seconds.

 Currently merging 2 out of 5

 * sys-devel/gcc-4.4.7

       current merge time: 7 seconds.
       ETA: 21 minutes and 14 seconds.
root@fireball / #


I'm not worried about curl.  It just happened to be there.  This is the
list of packages it is supposed to update:

root@fireball / # emerge -uvaDN world

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R    ] sys-devel/gcc-4.5.4:4.5  USE="gtk mudflap (multilib)
nls nptl openmp (-altivec) -cxx -doc (-fixed-point) -fortran -gcj
(-hardened) (-libssp) -lto -multislot -nopie -nossp -objc -objc++
-objc-gc {-test} -vanilla (-graphite%)" 0 kB
[ebuild   R    ] sys-devel/gcc-4.4.7:4.4  USE="gtk mudflap (multilib)
nls nptl openmp (-altivec) -cxx -doc (-fixed-point) -fortran -gcj
(-hardened) (-libssp) -multislot -nopie -nossp -objc -objc++ -objc-gc
{-test} -vanilla (-graphite%)" 0 kB
[ebuild     U  ] net-misc/curl-7.30.0 [7.29.0-r1] USE="ipv6 ssl threads
-adns -idn -kerberos -ldap -metalink -rtmp -ssh -static-libs {-test}"
CURL_SSL="openssl -axtls -cyassl -gnutls -nss -polarssl" 0 kB
[ebuild     U  ] app-misc/tmux-1.8 [1.6] USE="-vim-syntax" 0 kB
[ebuild     U ~] kde-base/kdelibs-4.10.3-r2:4 [4.10.3:4] USE="3dnow alsa
bzip2 fam handbook jpeg2k lzma mmx nls opengl (policykit)
semantic-desktop spell sse sse2 ssl udev udisks upower zeroconf -acl
(-altivec) (-aqua) -debug -doc -kerberos -openexr {-test}" 0 kB

Total: 5 packages (3 upgrades, 2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 kB

Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] y

I noticed this one or twice before.  It is compiling the same compiler
version twice when it should be upgrading/recompiling two *different*
versions.  I read before that gcc compiles three times or something but
the thing is, it can compile for HOURS and never finish.  Usually I stop
it and restart emerge and it compiles as it should, one for each version
and finishes as it should time wise.  I once started the upgrade and
went to take a nap.  I woke up around 5 or 6 hours later to find gcc
compiling twice on the same version.  Even libreoffice only takes a hour
or so. 

Anyone else see this before?   Now to go stop this one and get it to
update right and not take all week. 

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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