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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] coexisting GCC versions
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:47:27
Message-Id: 200906280547.23124.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] coexisting GCC versions by Alex Schuster
1 On Sonntag 28 Juni 2009, Alex Schuster wrote:
2 > Volker Armin Hemmann writes:
3 > > On Sonntag 28 Juni 2009, Alex Schuster wrote:
4 > >> Or keep 4.3 as default, I don't think you could run into problems.
5 > >
6 > > he will over time. If you switch default compiler emerge -s world has to
7 > > be done.
8 >
9 > According to Alan McKinnon's (and my own experience), this is not
10 > necessary, unless there are ABI changes. But there were none between 4.1
11 > and 4.3.
12 >
13 > http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@l.g.o/msg83724.html
14 >
15 > Wonko
16
17 you don't have to compile between 4.2.0 and 4.2.1 - sure.
18
19 But with 4.2 to 4.3 I only got a stable system after compiling everything with
20 the same compiler. So whatever Alan says - I know how borked my box was with
21 half of the libs compiled by one compiler and the rest by the other.

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Re: [gentoo-user] coexisting GCC versions Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>