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From: Grant Taylor <gtaylor@×××××××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best way forward? - Update 2 - SUCCESS! - CURRENT!!!
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:46:35
Message-Id: 67f93f28-83d9-e129-1d34-df685fe6b717@spamtrap.tnetconsulting.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best way forward? - Update 2 - SUCCESS! - CURRENT!!! by Neil Bothwick
1 On 3/8/21 5:35 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > Not if you went up a slot, then the old version would still continue to
3 > be used until you ran gcc-config. However, if you were depcleaning at each
4 > step, that would remove the previous slot and you would stay current.
5
6 So my overall method, which included depclean, did allow subsequent runs
7 to use the new updated GCC.
8
9 Thank you for clarifying.
10
11 > I tend to keep old copies of gcc around until I'm sure things play nicely
12 > with the new version:
13 >
14 > % gcc-config -l
15 > [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-9.3.0
16 > [2] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-10.2.0 *
17
18 [1] aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-9.3.0 * (cyan *)
19 [2] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-10.2.0 * (green *)
20
21 The aarch64* came in as part of @openwrt-prerequisites. I should
22 probably remove that as I no longer need it.
23
24 Thank you for your input Neil.
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29 Grant. . . .
30 unix || die