Re: [gentoo-dev] Gcc 3.0.4 installed system

[Geert Bevin]

Changing the profile in /etc/make.profile to default-1.0-gcc3 should
make you bootstrap against gcc3 instead.

On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 05:29, Preston A. Elder wrote:
> Personally, I'd be very interested to know how you did this 'from
> scratch'.
>
> I myself have done this from the post-bootstrap (but pre emerge system)
> stage on, but I cant bootstrap with 3.0.x, why?
>
> Well, the image the ISO installs has many applications on it, not linked
> statically (eg. tar, etc) -- compiling gcc3.0.4 works fine, but as soon
> as it then compiles glibc 2.2.5 and installs it, nothing else works.
>
> The utilities on the install image look for glibc 2.2.5 compiled with
> gcc 2.95.x.  So until there is an install image that has statically
> linked binaries on it, I dont see how a bootstrap can be achieved using
> 3.0.x compilers.
>
> I too, however, have installed a 3.0.x based system.  I did the
> bootstrap on 2.95.3, then first thing after bootstrap, I merged gcc
> 3.0.4, and then did my emerge system.  As Geert said, a few problems
> along the way, but not many.  I too made patches for all the problems I
> found, I submitted them to Geert.  The patches I made are ALL backward
> compatable to 2.95.3 (I believe, I've not tested this).  But then, I
> could also have compiled a different package set than he did.
>
>
> On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 07:01, Geert Bevin wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I finally installed 1.0 from scratch and decided to try it out with gcc
> > 3.0.4 instead of 2.95.3. Along the way I encountered some problems, but
> > surprisingly little. I've fixed everything that needed fixing and sadly
> > some packages are backwards incompatible. For that reason and for the
> > ease of maintenance I've created a dedicated gcc 3 profile.
> >
> > So, for those that want to try this out, just link the default-1.0-gcc3
> > profile instead of default-1.0 to /etc/make.profile. Note that this will
> > only work for installations from scratch and not for updates since
> > applications that link against libstdc++ v2 require the libraries of gcc
> > v2 and not gcc v3.
> >
> > There are still some packages that don't compile such as galeon and
> > openjade, but these will be fixed in a matter of time since I need them
> > ;-) Feel free to submit fixes too.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Geert Bevin
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> Thanks,
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