Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

[Jean-Marc Beaune]

I would call this discussion "Re-installing the system with gcc-4.1
That's what I'm doing now after more than one week of struggle ! ;-)


On 9/8/06, Dale <teendale@×××××××××××××.com> wrote:
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> Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
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> >
> > [Timothy A. Holmes]
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> > I am leaving my office in a moment to put the 2006.1 disk in a server to
> > start a fresh build (it's a standby server and I can afford to have it
> > off line for a day or 2) specifically to avoid having to do the gcc4
> > upgrade.  Ive done one so far and it took me 5 days and nearly cost me
> > my laptop -- and I followed the gentoo guide specifically.  There has
> > GOT to be a better way.  Sadly I cant take each of my servers offline to
> > do upgrade them this way -- some I will have to risk on the GCC upgrade,
> > but for now im avoiding it like the plague.
> >
> > Tim
> >
> >
> > Timothy A. Holmes
> > IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher
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> > Jeremiah 29:11
> > Esther 4:14
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> >
> >
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> This coming from a person that has a lot of bad luck.  I did the gcc
> upgrade and it seemed to work fine here.  I found a script on the forums
> that seemed to work better than emerge -e world.  I had a few packages
> that failed due to my settings but they after getting the USE flags set
> correctly, they worked fine.  I have changed my profile to 2006.1 while
> I was at it.
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>
> Maybe you have something complicated since you are running servers but
> it seemed to work here.  I was amazed that mine went so well.
>
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)
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/JM