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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gcc and glibc. Which unstable to pick?
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:17:34
Message-Id: 1575673.um6ePIo2Ot@nazgul
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] gcc and glibc. Which unstable to pick? by Dale
1 On Thursday 07 July 2011 16:01:27 Dale did opine thusly:
2 > As the list knows, I been having random lock ups on my system. I'm
3 > in the process of one last emerge -e world but I'm not holding my
4 > breath it will change anything. So, I'm wanting to try a unstable
5 > version of both gcc and glibc. This is the list available:
6
7 gcc-4.5.2 works just fine here
8 glibc-2.13-r3 no problems
9
10
11 And you are not stuck once upgrading glibc. If stuff doesn't run, edit
12 the magnificent version check in the ebuild and re-emerge it. It only
13 causes problems if other stuff gets built against a newer glibc and
14 you then want to downgrade
15
16
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18
19 >
20 > root@fireball / # equery list -p glibc
21 > * Searching for glibc ...
22 > [-P-] [ ~] sys-libs/glibc-2.9_p20081201-r3:2.2
23 > [-P-] [ ] sys-libs/glibc-2.10.1-r1:2.2
24 > [-P-] [ ] sys-libs/glibc-2.11.3:2.2
25 > [-P-] [ ~] sys-libs/glibc-2.12.1-r3:2.2
26 > [IP-] [ ] sys-libs/glibc-2.12.2:2.2
27 > [-P-] [ ~] sys-libs/glibc-2.13-r2:2.2
28 > [-P-] [ ~] sys-libs/glibc-2.13-r3:2.2
29 > [-P-] [ -] sys-libs/glibc-2.14:2.2
30 > root@fireball / # equery list -p gcc
31 > * Searching for gcc ...
32 > [-P-] [ -] sys-devel/gcc-2.95.3-r9:2.95
33 > [-P-] [ -] sys-devel/gcc-2.95.3-r10:2.95
34 > [-P-] [ -] sys-devel/gcc-3.1.1-r2:3.1
35 > [-P-] [ -] sys-devel/gcc-3.2.2:3.2
36 > [-P-] [ -] sys-devel/gcc-3.2.3-r4:3.2
37 > [-P-] [ ~] sys-devel/gcc-3.3.6-r1:3.3
38 > [-P-] [ ] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.6-r2:3.4
39 > [-P-] [ -] sys-devel/gcc-4.0.4:4.0
40 > [-P-] [ ] sys-devel/gcc-4.1.2:4.1
41 > [-P-] [ ~] sys-devel/gcc-4.2.4-r1:4.2
42 > [-P-] [ ~] sys-devel/gcc-4.3.3-r2:4.3
43 > [-P-] [ ] sys-devel/gcc-4.3.4:4.3
44 > [-P-] [ ~] sys-devel/gcc-4.3.5:4.3
45 > [-P-] [ ~] sys-devel/gcc-4.3.6:4.3
46 > [-P-] [ ~] sys-devel/gcc-4.4.2:4.4
47 > [-P-] [ ~] sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3-r3:4.4
48 > [-P-] [ ] sys-devel/gcc-4.4.4-r2:4.4
49 > [IP-] [ ] sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5:4.4
50 > [-P-] [ ~] sys-devel/gcc-4.5.1-r1:4.5
51 > [-P-] [ ~] sys-devel/gcc-4.5.2:4.5
52 > [-P-] [M-] sys-devel/gcc-4.6.0:4.6
53 > [-P-] [M-] sys-devel/gcc-4.6.1:4.6
54 > root@fireball / #
55 >
56 > I was thinking of running a older version of gcc first. Just to see
57 > if that helps. Is there a advantage to running a different version
58 > of glibc as well? I'm keeping in mind that once I upgrade glibc,
59 > I'm sort of stuck. I was looking at either gcc 4.4.4 and/or glibc
60 > 2.13-r3 as options.
61 >
62 > Thoughts?
63 >
64 > While I am at it, I tried searching for bugs on bgo. I click the
65 > search link and select for it to search all bugs, closed as well.
66 > When I type in glibc and crash then click search, all I ever get is
67 > the please stand by screen. I never get a list of the hits. I
68 > tried several times. Is bgo having issues or do I have another
69 > issue to add to the table?
70 >
71 > Thanks.
72 >
73 > Dale
74 >
75 > :-) :-)
76 --
77 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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