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On Monday 10 August 2015 13:03:14 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 11:32:01 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > Has anyone any advice on whether it's a good idea to add a keyword to |
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> > gcc-4.9.2 so that I can make progress here? This is a stable box and |
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> > I'd like to know whether this one, rather central ~amd64 package would |
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> > cause trouble. |
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> I've been using ~amd64 GCC on my MythTV boxes, which run mainly stable, |
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> for a long time. I would keep 4.8 installed too, just in case the odd |
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> package still doesn't like 4.9. Ironically, on my MythTV boxes, the only |
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> package that fails with 4.9 is MythTV :-O |
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That's reassuring - thanks Neil. Will I also have to upgrade bin-utils and |
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libtool to ~ versions? I think those two need recompiling with a new gcc |
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version, before any of the rest of the system. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |