Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-4.9?

[Fernando Rodriguez]

On Monday, August 10, 2015 2:02:20 PM Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 13:58:19 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
> > > I've been using ~amd64 GCC on my MythTV boxes, which run mainly
> > > stable, for a long time. I would keep 4.8 installed too, just in case
> > > the odd package still doesn't like 4.9. Ironically, on my MythTV
> > > boxes, the only package that fails with 4.9 is MythTV :-O
> >
> > That's reassuring - thanks Neil. Will I also have to upgrade bin-utils
> > and libtool to ~ versions? I think those two need recompiling with a
> > new gcc version, before any of the rest of the system.
>
> I really can't remember, but I'm sure portage will tell you if they do.

You don't. It will tell you to run the script to fix the libtool files if you 
run into problems. I didn't run it and didn't run into problems. I think it's 
only needed if you remove the old compiler.

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Fernando Rodriguez