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From: Hartmut Figge <h.figge@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: A Glitch in the Matrix or just another burb of emerge... ;)
Date: Wed, 11 May 2016 02:59:54
Message-Id: a6b1e6a0-34cc-8af4-1022-47d2650ef57c@hfigge.myfqdn.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: A Glitch in the Matrix or just another burb of emerge... ;) by Jonathan Callen
1 Jonathan Callen:
2
3 >I haven't looked into why gcc 4.9 blocks older versions now, although
4 >I know it didn't always do so.
5
6 I was bitten by that problem today. First I masked gcc-4.9 so I was able
7 to do an emerge @world. Then I commented out the masking of gcc-4.9 and
8 tried to emerge it, I got
9
10 i5-64 hafi # emerge -pv gcc
11
12 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
13
14 Calculating dependencies... done!
15 [ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-4.9.3:4.9.3::gentoo USE="cxx fortran
16 (multilib) nls nptl openmp sanitize vtv%* (-altivec) (-awt) -cilk -debug
17 -doc (-fixed-point) -gcj -go -graphite (-hardened) (-libssp) -multislot
18 -nopie -nossp -objc -objc++ -objc-gc -regression-test -vanilla" 39 KiB
19 [blocks B ] <sys-devel/gcc-4.9 ("<sys-devel/gcc-4.9" is blocking
20 sys-devel/gcc-4.9.3)
21
22 Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 39 KiB
23 Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied)
24
25 * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
26 * installed at the same time on the same system.
27
28 (sys-devel/gcc-4.9.3:4.9.3/4.9.3::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
29 pulled in by
30 gcc
31 sys-devel/gcc required by @system
32 >=sys-devel/gcc-4.9.3 required by
33 (dev-java/icedtea-bin-7.2.6.6-r1:7/7::gentoo, installed)
34
35 (sys-devel/gcc-4.7.4:4.7.4/4.7.4::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
36 sys-devel/gcc:4.7.4 required by @selected
37
38 It seems judicious to stay with the masked gcc until the problem is
39 fixed or someone offers a solution.
40
41 Hartmut

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