Re: [gentoo-dev] Gcc-3.3.1-r2 problems?

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 15:06, Patrick Börjesson wrote:
> Anyone else having problems with gcc-3.3.1-r2? After I updated gcc and
> then emerged some updates to various other programs (xmms, gkrellm, ...)
> I'm unable to start any of those programs. They seg-fault as soon as I
> try to start 'em.
>
> How should I go about it if I wanted a lesser version of gcc? It seems
> as all programs compiled with 3.3.1-r2 won't work so I doubt gcc would
> and that sort of excludes a reemerge of gcc.
>
> Is there any way to "pin" gcc to under a specific version? And please
> don't answear /etc/portage/profiles/package.mask as that file gets
> overwritten at every emerge sync...
>
> Right now I would be _very_ thankful for any and all responses I get as
> my last resort would be a reinstallation of my entire system which I
> would very much like to avoid.
>

Please checkout comment 13 for bug #28875:

  http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28875#c13

let me know if you require more info/whatever.


Thanks,


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Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa