[gentoo-user] Why does my system still want gcc 3.4.9?

I have been battling this weirdness for several months, and it has
been getting worse and worse.  Now I can't even unpack half the man
pages.

The short of it is that a lot of binaries on my system are linked
against gcc 3.4.9, even if I remerge them from scratch.  It happened
with gcc 4.2.2, I emerged 4.2.3 and it still happens.  The most common
broken binary is /usr/bin/lzma, which I have remerged several times
since the 4.2.3 emerge to no avail.

# ldd /usr/bin/lzma
/usr/bin/lzma: /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.9' not found (required by /usr/bin/lzma)
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb7e3a000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb7e15000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb7e09000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7cd4000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7f63000)

gcc-config is happy:

# gcc-config -l
 [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.1.2
 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.2.3 *

The bad symlinks for gcj components (reported by revdep-rebuild) have
been fixed.

There is an old gcc hanging around, which I have been tempted to move
out of the way and see what happens, but I don't like broken
unbootable systems.

$ ll /usr/lib/gcc/i386-pc-linux-gnu/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 80 Jun 12  2006 3.4.4

with the other two versions elsewhere:

$ ll /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 2464 Dec 27 15:07 4.1.2
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 2504 May 12 11:58 4.2.3

This is a ~x86 system.

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