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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using sys-devel/gcc-4.4.1
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:50:27
Message-Id: 200910010750.22297.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using sys-devel/gcc-4.4.1 by Dale
1 On Donnerstag 01 Oktober 2009, Dale wrote:
2 > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
3 > > On Donnerstag 01 Oktober 2009, Dale wrote:
4 > >> Hi,
5 > >>
6 > >> I'm thinking about upgrading to gcc-4.4 and was wondering if anyone here
7 > >> is using it
8 > >
9 > > yes
10 > >
11 > >> and if they are having any problems with it.
12 > >
13 > > no
14 > >
15 > >> I'm using a
16 > >> desktop system with KDE and OOo as the biggest packages.
17 > >
18 > > me too
19 > >
20 > >> No servers or
21 > >> anything to worry about like apache. Also using 2.6.30-gentoo-r6 for my
22 > >> kernel.
23 > >
24 > > vanilla-sources here.
25 > >
26 > > gcc-porting helped tho
27 >
28 > Thanks. What exactly is gcc-porting? I did a quick search and found a
29 > page on freshmeat but it seemed to be related to MS-DOS or something.
30 >
31 > Dale
32 >
33 > :-) :-)
34 >
35
36 gcc-porting overlay, install via layman. It had some ebuild/package versions
37 that were patched to compile with gcc4.4. AFAIK it is not needed anymore.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using sys-devel/gcc-4.4.1 Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>