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From: Mark Loeser <halcy0n@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Binary packages
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 01:06:36
Message-Id: 20060209010142.GD22793@aerie.halcy0n.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Binary packages by Jason Stubbs
1 Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o> said:
2 > On Thursday 09 February 2006 09:30, Mark Loeser wrote:
3 > > Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o> said:
4 > > > It was my understanding that it is needed for the 3.3 -> 3.4 upgrade.
5 > > > Various packages that will build fine against either are broken until
6 > > > being recompiled after the upgrade and there is currently no way to
7 > > > express this with dependencies.
8 > >
9 > > You need either gcc-3.3 or libstdc++-v3. I don't see forcing either upon our
10 > > users to be a good thing. The upgrade doc covers how to do the 3.3->3.4
11 > > upgrade, and I think most archs are on 3.4 at this point.
12 >
13 > Ok. If the there's an upgrade doc and 3.4 postinst points to it, no problem.
14 > I take it the dependencies you're asking about is for binary-only (or other?)
15 > packages that specifically depend on 3.3 then?
16
17 Nothing should explicitly depend on gcc-3.3 to compile. If that is the
18 case, let me know and I'll try and patch the package. I am specifically
19 asking for binary only packages that require libstdc++-v3 to depend on the
20 virtual/libstdc++-3.3.
21
22 The doc is in the gcc-3.4 postinst:
23 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml
24
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