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 1Mc6DR-0003ek-Us for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:29:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55082E0449; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:29:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 359A3E0449 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:29:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D750566BB5 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:29:43 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.989 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.989 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.390, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 34oBBKITwrfT for ; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:29:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEAC866C8A for ; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:29:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Mc6DE-0006yc-So for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:29:32 +0000 Received: from adsl-69-234-186-187.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net ([69.234.186.187]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:29:32 +0000 Received: from w41ter by adsl-69-234-186-187.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:29:32 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: walt Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 ---> 4.4.1 Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:29:17 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20090814231756.GA9536@crowfix.com> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-69-234-186-187.dsl.irvnca.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3pre) Gecko/20090814 Shredder/3.0b4pre In-Reply-To: <20090814231756.GA9536@crowfix.com> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: f5123f95-5cdf-421d-8d20-dffe8fe4fdb8 X-Archives-Hash: ebd2887588e4daae4824ab3fe1f70549 On 08/14/2009 04:17 PM, felix@crowfix.com wrote: > Are any special steps needed to handle this upgrade, other than using > gcc-config to change the current selection? Do I need to follow the > upgrade docs, such as remergeing system and world? I'm no expert, but I just did the same upgrade this morning, and all I did was run fix_libtool_files afterward. So far, no problems. The really nasty upgrade is when the version of libstdc++ changes, which it hasn't lately, and then you need to recompile every app that uses it.