[gentoo-user] gcc upgrade

[gentoo-user] gcc upgrade

[Daniel D Jones]

There are a number of packages that are apparently in the main tree which will 
not compile with gcc 3.3 (openal and atlantikdesigner are two that prevent me 
from completing an "update world").  The bugs for these are closed because 
they work with the new version and, evidently, that's good enough.  I'd like 
to do the dreaded update to gcc 3.4.  However, the guide at the gentoo.org 
website say to do:

emerge -uav gcc

If I use the -u switch, portage tells me there's nothing to merge.  If I 
simply do an emerge -p, portage says that it's going to install gcc-3.4.  How 
do I identify what's telling portage not to update gcc?  If I follow the rest 
of the guide, is it safe (for reasonable definitions of the word) to emerge 
gcc without the update switch?

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Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade

[Richard Fish]

On 8/12/06, Daniel D Jones <ddjones@riddlemaster.org> wrote:
> emerge -uav gcc
>
> If I use the -u switch, portage tells me there's nothing to merge.  If I
> simply do an emerge -p, portage says that it's going to install gcc-3.4.  How
> do I identify what's telling portage not to update gcc?

This probably just means you already have gcc 3.4 installed, and can
skip this step (start with the gcc-config/eselect compiler step).

>  If I follow the rest of the guide, is it safe (for reasonable definitions of the word) to emerge
> gcc without the update switch?

If you don't actually already have it installed, yes, but you may want
to take a look at my answer to brullonulla on the same topic...

-Richard
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[gentoo-user] gcc upgrade

[Valmor de Almeida]

Hello,

I just updated the portage tree and gcc was upgraded. I have set gcc to
the newer version

-> gcc-config -l
 [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.3.4
 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.4.3 *

and I am trying to rebuild the whole system with

 emerge -e system
 emerge -e world

assuming this all goes without trouble (will take a while), should I
unmerge version 4.3.4?

Thanks,

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