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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-4.9?
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 12:58:28
Message-Id: 8419473.gmqEJEl5hN@wstn
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-4.9? by Neil Bothwick
1 On Monday 10 August 2015 13:03:14 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 11:32:01 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
3 > > Has anyone any advice on whether it's a good idea to add a keyword to
4 > > gcc-4.9.2 so that I can make progress here? This is a stable box and
5 > > I'd like to know whether this one, rather central ~amd64 package would
6 > > cause trouble.
7 >
8 > I've been using ~amd64 GCC on my MythTV boxes, which run mainly stable,
9 > for a long time. I would keep 4.8 installed too, just in case the odd
10 > package still doesn't like 4.9. Ironically, on my MythTV boxes, the only
11 > package that fails with 4.9 is MythTV :-O
12
13 That's reassuring - thanks Neil. Will I also have to upgrade bin-utils and
14 libtool to ~ versions? I think those two need recompiling with a new gcc
15 version, before any of the rest of the system.
16
17 --
18 Rgds
19 Peter

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Re: [gentoo-user] GCC-4.9? Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>