Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Barry.SCHWARTZ@×××××××××××××.org
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 04:40:53
Message-Id: 20050815043617.GA14042@crud.crud.mn.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives? by Jerry McBride
1 Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@×××××××.net> skribis:
2 > On Sunday 14 August 2005 06:06 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > > On Sunday 21 August 2005 22:05, Jerry McBride wrote:
4 > > > What and where EXACTLY is gentoo behind any other release?
5 > >
6 > > gcc4
7 > >
8 > > since fedora switched to gcc4, all the version-number-junkies got itchy.
9 > >
10 > > Is not too bad, if some of them go to fedora...
11 >
12 > We must not be on the same page.... If you WANT gcc4 you can certainly have it
13 > in Gentoo.
14
15 Another thing, too, and I don't know if this is the case with Fedora,
16 but a binary distribution isn't necessarily all compiled with the
17 installed compiler. It probably ought to be, but it doesn't have to
18 be.
19
20 A few adventurous individuals (not I) have been using gcc4 to build
21 ~amd64 stuff and there are still some packages that give trouble.