[gentoo-user] virtualBox and Gcc

[gentoo-user] virtualBox and Gcc

[Harry Putnam]

Can anyone tell me if there is some way to tell emerge to use a
specific compiler during an emerge?

I get this output during emerge of virutalbox-ose.  Note that it says
to use a version of gcc earlier than 4.3.  Is there some way to do
that without causing grief somewhere else?

[...]
 VirtualBox-2.0.6-OSE.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...          [ ok ]
 * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ...                                     [ ok ]
 * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ...                                    [ ok ]
 * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ...                                   [ ok ]
>>> cfg-update-1.8.2-r1: Creating checksum index...
 * there are known problems with gcc 4.3 and the virtualbox
 * recompiler stuff. Please use at least a version of gcc < 4.3
 * 
 * ERROR: app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-2.0.6 failed.
 * Call stack:
 *                     ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called pkg_setup
 *   virtualbox-ose-2.0.6.ebuild, line   54:  Called die
 * The specific snippet of code:
 *                      die "gcc 4.3 cannot build the virtualbox recompiler"
 *  The die message:
 *   gcc 4.3 cannot build the virtualbox recompiler
[...]

Re: [gentoo-user] virtualBox and Gcc

[Paul Hartman]

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Can anyone tell me if there is some way to tell emerge to use a
> specific compiler during an emerge?
>
> I get this output during emerge of virutalbox-ose.  Note that it says
> to use a version of gcc earlier than 4.3.  Is there some way to do
> that without causing grief somewhere else?
>
> [...]
>  VirtualBox-2.0.6-OSE.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...          [ ok ]
>  * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ...                                     [ ok ]
>  * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ...                                    [ ok ]
>  * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ...                                   [ ok ]
>>>> cfg-update-1.8.2-r1: Creating checksum index...
>  * there are known problems with gcc 4.3 and the virtualbox
>  * recompiler stuff. Please use at least a version of gcc < 4.3
>  *
>  * ERROR: app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-2.0.6 failed.
>  * Call stack:
>  *                     ebuild.sh, line   49:  Called pkg_setup
>  *   virtualbox-ose-2.0.6.ebuild, line   54:  Called die
>  * The specific snippet of code:
>  *                      die "gcc 4.3 cannot build the virtualbox recompiler"
>  *  The die message:
>  *   gcc 4.3 cannot build the virtualbox recompiler
> [...]

I guess you can just use gcc-config to change versions, compile it,
then gcc-config back to normal... Maybe there's a way to define it at
the package level (so you don't have to do that every time there's an
update) but I don't know it off the top of my head.

[gentoo-user] Re: virtualBox and Gcc

[Harry Putnam]

Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
>> Can anyone tell me if there is some way to tell emerge to use a
>> specific compiler during an emerge?

[...]

> I guess you can just use gcc-config to change versions, compile it,
> then gcc-config back to normal... Maybe there's a way to define it at
> the package level (so you don't have to do that every time there's an
> update) but I don't know it off the top of my head.

Thanks...

Any other opinions?