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From: Gordon Malm <gengor@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: add a compiler-version entry to pkg db
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:55:12
Message-Id: 200812091055.09276.gengor@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: add a compiler-version entry to pkg db by Federico Ferri
1 Should be able to find which gcc was used by checking LDPATH in the
2 environment.bz2. I believe it is about the only gcc version information
3 recorded in /var/db/pkg/<category>/<package>/ though.
4
5 Gordon Malm (gengor)
6
7 On Monday, December 8, 2008 16:44:16 Federico Ferri wrote:
8 > Hello,
9 > today I hit this annoyance, because my laptop hung in the middle of an
10 > 'emerge -e @world' (checking that my world set compiles with
11 > gcc-4.3... stopped at ~ 300 of 700 :S )
12 >
13 > I was looking for an entry in /var/db/pkg/<cat/pkg>/ that could have
14 > told me the compiler used to build the package, but couldn't find any.
15 > indeed it would be a fairly useful feature to have, both for testing
16 > purposes, and for user's everyday maintenance.
17 >
18 > please criticize this with anything constructive you can think of.
19 >
20 > thanks

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal: add a compiler-version entry to pkg db Federico Ferri <mescalinum@g.o>