Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any reason to keep older gcc?

[Richard Marzan]

On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 15:25 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2007-12-31, Rumen Yotov <rumen@××××××.org> wrote:
> > On (30/12/07 16:18) Grant Edwards wrote:
> >> On 2007-12-28, Qian Qiao <qian.qiao@×××××.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> >>  Would there be any reason to keep the older gcc 3.46?  I'm
> >> >>  not familiar enough with Gentoo "under-the-hood" to decide.
> >> >
> >> > Try "equery depends =gcc-3*", without the quotes obviously.
> >> >
> >> > If none of the packages you installed depends on gcc-3*, you should be
> >> > able to get rid of it safely.
> >>
> >> That's not been my experience.  For example, Qemu won't compile
> >> with gcc-4, yet doesn't have gcc-3 as a dependancy.
> >
> > qemu is just a meta-ebuild, in ~x86 qemu-softmmu-0.9.0-r1:
> > pkg_setup() {
> >  if [ "$(gcc-major-version)" == "4" ]; then
> >  eerror "qemu requires gcc-3 in order to build and work
> >  correctly"
> >  eerror "please compile it switching to gcc-3."
> >  eerror "We are aware that qemu can guess a gcc-3 but
> >  this feature"
> >  eerror "could be harmful."
> >  die "gcc 4 cannot build q
> > fi
>
> My mistake.  I was thinking of OpenEmbedded.  It uses a build
> system very similar to portage, and that's where I recently ran
> into problems with Qemu being built using gcc 3.
>
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>


Just mask it. Everything will be fine.

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