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From: Bjarke Istrup Pedersen <gurligebis@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] why does gcc-3.4.x depend on gcc-3.3.x / libstdc++?
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 00:49:58
Message-Id: 430FB7CB.3030706@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] why does gcc-3.4.x depend on gcc-3.3.x / libstdc++? by Mike Frysinger
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4 I must say I have been wondering about this for a while too.
5 A solution might be add some sort of flag to packages that are binary,
6 and then let portage install libstdc++ the first time you install this
7 kind of package.
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9 Mike Frysinger skrev:
10 > On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 10:14:04AM +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote:
11 >
12 >>Subject says it all - is there any reason why 3.4.4 installs either
13 >>gcc-3.3* or libstdc++-v3 built with gcc-3.3?
14 >
15 >
16 > because i got tired of people complaining about broken systems when they
17 > emerged gcc-3.4.4 and cleaned out all gcc-3.3.x versions from their system
18 >
19 >
20 >>Is it possible to compile
21 >>a native 3.4 system without the old gcc if I don't need binary
22 >>compatibility?
23 >
24 >
25 > i just add libstdc++-v3 to my package.provided in /etc/portage/profile/ and
26 > call it a day
27 >
28 > i dont really see there being a clean solution until we have portage support
29 > to track ABI dependencies
30 > -mike
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