Re: [gentoo-dev] gcc-3 install problem

[Antonio M D'souza]

I changed the profile symlink & it is now building gcc-3 :-)
Thanks. 

On May 2, 2002 08:00 pm, Jared H. Hudson wrote:
> If you /etc/make.profile symbolic link points to
> ../usr/portage/profiles/default-1.0
> then /etc/make.profile/packages contains the line:
> *=sys-devel/gcc-2.95.3-r5
>
> which means portage will only install that version of gcc, as far as I
> understand it.
>
> The solution is to either A) change the symbolic link of
> /etc/make.profile to use ../usr/portage/profiles/default-1.0-gcc3 OR
> B) use ebuild instead of emerge. AKA:
> ebuild /usr/portage/sys-devel/gcc/gcc-3.0.4-r5.ebuild merge
>
> -Jared H.
>
> Antonio M D'souza wrote:
> > I've been unable to figure out why, but emerge will not let me install
> > gcc-3.0.x at all. This screen dump should give you a clear idea of what
> > it is that I am running up against:
> >
> > root@quikbox:~# emerge /usr/portage/sys-devel/gcc/gcc-3.0.4-r5.ebuild
> > Calculating dependencies \
> >
> > !!! ebuild sys-devel/gcc-3.0.4-r5 not found (possibly blocked by
> > package.mask)
> >
> > root@quikbox:~# grep gcc /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask
> > #this gcc's new atexit() fix that is supposed to be wonderful, doesn't
> > work....
> > =sys-devel/gcc-2.95.3-r2
> > =sys-devel/gcc-2.95.3-r3
> > #>=sys-devel/gcc-2.96
> > root@quikbox:~# ls -l /usr/portage/sys-devel/gcc/gcc-3.0.4-r5.ebuild
> > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root         8679 05-02 17:43
> > /usr/portage/sys-devel/gcc/gcc-3.0.4-r5.ebuild
> > root@quikbox:~#
> >
> >
> > Anyone have a clue as to why this could be happening?
> >
> > Tony
>
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