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From: Kevin Geiss <kevin@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-ppc-user@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] libc.so.5
Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 17:57:26
Message-Id: 200310081056.51722.kevin@desertsol.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-ppc-user] libc.so.5 by SteveC
1 you might check out gcc-config. i remember reading that it is now possible to
2 have both gcc 2 and gcc 3 installed. you would use gcc-config to switch
3 between which one was used for emerge.
4
5 * sys-devel/gcc-config
6 Latest version available: 1.3.3-r1
7 Latest version installed: 1.3.3-r1
8 Size of downloaded files: 0 kB
9 Homepage: http://www.gentoo.org/
10 Description: Utility to change the gcc compiler being used.
11
12 i'm not sure how that helps get an old version of libc though?
13
14 On Tuesday 07 October 2003 8:03 am, SteveC wrote:
15 > hello...
16 >
17 > Mathematica used to work on my iBook when gcc 2.xx was up. Now the thing
18 > defaults to 3.xx and it segfaults pretty much straight away.
19 >
20 > the mathematica people say I need a copy of libc.so.5, which was easy
21 > enough in debian/x86 to apt-get install :-)
22 >
23 > how can I get 2.x && 3.x to coexist, get it to compile the old libc or
24 > whatever to get things working again?
25 >
26 > tia!
27 >
28 > have fun,
29 >
30 > SteveC steve@×××××××××.com http://www.fractalus.com/steve/
31 >
32 > --
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Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] libc.so.5 David Holm <dholm@g.o>