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 1RzLPo-0000Oa-8J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:03:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EDCDAE0C9F; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:03:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43D8EE0A00 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:02:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBDF11B4006 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:02:29 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.41 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.41 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.500, BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, FREEMAIL_REPLY=1, FSL_RCVD_USER=0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01] autolearn=no 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 Z8pbL1iSzo7r for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:02:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CF58A1B4004 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:02:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RzLOG-00051V-Bk for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:02:20 +0100 Received: from athedsl-343557.home.otenet.gr ([85.72.197.163]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:02:20 +0100 Received: from realnc by athedsl-343557.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:02:20 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Downgrading gcc Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 07:02:07 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <20120220042032.GB3052@solfire> 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=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-343557.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120213 Thunderbird/10.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-Archives-Salt: c3b615a9-2f2a-461d-b6e0-06993b2a0cf9 X-Archives-Hash: 0f263e376f408e62a7a1bc9aa816b394 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, > 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 > > > > > > >