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Neil Bothwick ha scritto: |
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> On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:15:09 +0100, bn wrote: |
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>> I have a stable x86 system that requires still a bit of updating, among |
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>> those libtool and gcc. Since I need the system to be usable *now* for |
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>> work reasons, I don't feel like updating gcc and rebuilding it all with |
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>> an emerge -e system / emerge -e world, but more and more packages want |
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>> to upgrade to libtool 2.x |
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> GCC is slotted, so you can install the latest version but switch back to |
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> the old version instantly if it gives you problems. Unless the is an ABI |
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> change, which hasn't happened for a while, it is not necessary to rebuild |
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> everything. |
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That's exactly what I wanted to know. But it strikes me that from |
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libtool 1.x to 2.x there's no ABI change. Is this correct? |
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I don't know exactly what libtool does (I'm not a C programmer -well, |
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apart from very basic stuff), but in general major version updates break |
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compatibility, therefore my concern. |
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m. |
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