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From: "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: karl@××××××××.se
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerging older compilers
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 23:24:02
Message-Id: 1992892.Fylsq1jqPK@pinacolada
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] emerging older compilers by karl@aspodata.se
1 Policy is that you *should* be able to go back in steps of two versions.
2 Eg. emerge 4.8 with 5.0 ...
3
4 However, this is occasionally broken, so please file bugs with the detailed
5 logs and versions.
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8 Am Freitag, 30. November 2018, 19:25:46 CET schrieb karl@××××××××.se:
9 > For testing purposes, I would like to install older compilers,
10 > e.g. testing with older kernels.
11 >
12 > I have tried to install e.g. gcc-5.4.0-r4, gcc-4.9.4, and
13 > gcc-3.4.6-r2.ebuild (package.unmask is upd. for theese), but it fails.
14 >
15 > You usually install a newer compiler with the older (and that is
16 > well tested), but has anyone tried it the other way ?
17 >
18 > Regards,
19 > /Karl Hammar
20 >
21 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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24 > S-742 94 Östhammar
25 > Sweden
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29 Andreas K. Hüttel
30 dilfridge@g.o
31 Gentoo Linux developer
32 (council, toolchain, perl, libreoffice, comrel)

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