[gentoo-user] gcc upgrade

[Daniel D Jones]

There are a number of packages that are apparently in the main tree which will 
not compile with gcc 3.3 (openal and atlantikdesigner are two that prevent me 
from completing an "update world").  The bugs for these are closed because 
they work with the new version and, evidently, that's good enough.  I'd like 
to do the dreaded update to gcc 3.4.  However, the guide at the gentoo.org 
website say to do:

emerge -uav gcc

If I use the -u switch, portage tells me there's nothing to merge.  If I 
simply do an emerge -p, portage says that it's going to install gcc-3.4.  How 
do I identify what's telling portage not to update gcc?  If I follow the rest 
of the guide, is it safe (for reasonable definitions of the word) to emerge 
gcc without the update switch?

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