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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] skype notworking
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 11:50:53
Message-Id: 200805011350.20609.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] skype notworking by Gavin Seddon
1 On Thursday 01 May 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote:
2 > > as per your original post. I recommend you upgrade gcc to version
3 > > 4.1.2
4 >
5 > thanks,
6 > However I need gcc 3~ for some critical software.  If I change to 4
7 > 'it' won't recompile.  I suppose I could alternate profiles as
8 > required.
9
10 I had that with qemu. It reduced me to tears...
11
12 Lucky for skype I think it will be easier as you don't build skype:
13
14 emerge gcc-4.something
15 set gcc-3 to the system compiler
16 make sure gcc-3 libs are earlier in LD_LIBRARY_PATH than gcc-4
17 run skype with
18 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1 skype
19
20 --
21 Alan McKinnon
22 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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Re: [gentoo-user] skype notworking Gavin Seddon <gavin.m.seddon@×××××××××××××.uk>