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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] coexisting GCC versions
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2009 03:01:52
Message-Id: 4A46DD1A.2070801@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] coexisting GCC versions by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
2 > On Sonntag 28 Juni 2009, Alex Schuster wrote:
3 >
4 >> Roger Mason writes:
5 >>
6 >>> I need gcc 4.3 to compile a specific application. I am hoping that I
7 >>> can install gcc 4.3 alongside 4.1.1 without suffering some awful
8 >>> catastrophe. This is the output of emerge on the machine in question:
9 >>>
10 >> [...]
11 >>
12 >>
13 >>> Can someone confirm that I'll be able to use gcc 4.3 for the specific
14 >>> application that needs it but then revert to 4.1.1 without having to
15 >>> re-compile all or most of my system?
16 >>>
17 >> I'm pretty sure you can. Emerge gcc 4.3, activate it with gcc-config,
18 >> compile your application, and use gcc-config again to revert back to 4.1 if
19 >> you like.
20 >>
21 >> Or keep 4.3 as default, I don't think you could run into problems.
22 >>
23 >> Wonko
24 >>
25 >
26 > he will over time. If you switch default compiler emerge -s world has to be
27 > done.
28 >
29 > But seriously, why staying with 4.1? it's old... and 4.3 was a nice release...
30 >
31 >
32 >
33
34 Except for me and a couple others. I had programs that crashed,
35 couldn't get a kernel to work and other issues. I had to go back to
36 4.1on this rig. After going back, everything works fine.
37
38 Dale
39
40 :-) :-)

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Re: [gentoo-user] coexisting GCC versions Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>