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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Downgrading gcc
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:02:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jhsk4i$55k$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA2qdGVpRg0Mwc8YPJQE3G-mfYQnsRQNNoRjS2Ms=n4FjXkvmQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 20/02/12 06:38, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> Just re-emerge the older version e.g. emerge =...gcc-4.4.5 (... is the
> category). Then use eselect gcc or gcc-config to select the active gcc
> version.

It's better to emerge it by using its slot:

   emerge gcc:4.4

so you can get updates normally for that slot.



>
> CMIIW
>
> Rgds,
>
> On Feb 20, 2012 11:24 AM, <meino.cramer@gmx.de
> <mailto:meino.cramer@gmx.de>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I want to downgrade gcc from 4.5.3-r1 to 4.4.5.
>
>     The Gentoo gcc UPgrade guide tells me, that ABI are only upward
>     compatible which implies problems when downgrading and not upgrading.
>
>     Nonetheless a downgrade is needed here and I want to go
>     to gcc-4.4.5.
>
>     How can I acchieve this in a clean way?
>
>     Best regards,
>     mcc
>
>
>
>
>
>
>





  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-20  5:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-20  4:20 [gentoo-user] Downgrading gcc meino.cramer
2012-02-20  4:30 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-02-20  4:38 ` [gentoo-user] " Pandu Poluan
2012-02-20  5:02   ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2012-02-20 20:09 ` [gentoo-user] " walt

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