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On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 08:25:14PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote |
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> AFAICT, you are suddenly not allowed to have gcc 4.9 installed |
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> alongside any older versions -- even though they're supposedly in |
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> slots. |
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> This is odd, because my system has had 4.9.whatever along with 3-4 |
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> older versions for some time and been perfectly happy. |
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> So, I uninstalled gcc 4.9 and all older versions except 4.6. |
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Ouch! I was asking what you had, not suggesting removing anything yet. |
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I would've recommended removing the old versions and keeping 4.9.3 if |
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anything. |
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> I then removed 4.6 from the world file (but left it installed). |
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> emerge is now happy and willing to upgrade gcc from 4.6 to 4.9 -- but |
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> it can't: now the build of 4.9.3 is failing. It appears I can no |
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> longer build _anything_. |
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> My system seems to be well and truly borked. |
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See https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1009338-postdays-0-postorder-asc-start-0.html |
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where someone else destroyed their gcc, and downloaded and untarred a |
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binary tarball of gcc, to save their system. I can't seem to get |
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http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org to respond. Was that part of the |
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re-organization of the gentoo.org website? |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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