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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:28:40
Message-Id: 200803302326.54295.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot compile gcc-3.3.6-r1 using gcc-4.2.3 by Neil Bothwick
1 On Sunday 30 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:59:48 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 > > While cleaning up my machine, I unmerged gcc-3.3.6-r1 and the spare
4 > > quickpkg I had of it. Now virtual/libstdc++ needs it and the build
5 > > fails with the error:
6 >
7 > It doesn't need gcc-3.3, but that it the default it tries to install
8 > if none of the providers of this are available. Install
9 > sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 instead and the virtual will be happy.
10 >
11 > I'm sure the devs have a good reason for not making
12 > sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 the default libstdc++ but /I'm not going to try
13 > to guess what it may be ;-)
14
15 Yup, this works. Thanks Neil and Rudmer.
16
17 In hindsight the answer was there in the ebuild all the time. I should
18 have done what I usually do and read the thing!
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