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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1 , question on recompiling
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:29:01
Message-Id: 20060719152204.1fe10835@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1 , question on recompiling by Alexander Skwar
1 On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:34:08 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote:
2
3 > > I upgraded to 4.1.1 a couple of weeks ago & haven't done a mass
4 > > recompile & I have yet to run into any problem: yes, there's always
5 > > tomorrow (grin).
6
7 > I upgraded to 4.1.1 and ran into massive problems. People might
8 > remember a "short" thread on this list...
9
10 Oh yes!
11
12 I recompiled glibc, to be on the safe side, and KDE because it did have
13 problems (and I wanted to see if the kdehiddenvisibility flag made any
14 difference) but nothing else caused a problem.
15
16 Running a testing system, most packages would be recompiled within a
17 month anyway.
18
19 > Because of the problems I had, I would *NEVER* encourage people
20 > to *NOT* recompile everything.
21
22 I prefer to let them make up their own minds about this. I'm not saying
23 people shouldn't recompile everything, just that it may not be necessary.
24 If you have problems, emerge -e world may be quicker than trying to track
25 down the troublesome packages. Me, I prefer to find and solve problems
26 than do the Gentoo equivalent of a reinstall.
27
28
29 --
30 Neil Bothwick
31
32 "Doing it right is no excuse for not meeting the schedule."

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Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1 , question on recompiling Philip Webb <purslow@×××××××××.ca>