Newbie: gcc versions & new install

Torok · n00b Joined: 30 Jul 2002 Posts: 6

Question for you guys: I'm getting a new machine by the end of the week. I want to try installing Gentoo (right now I use Mandrake), but I want GCC3.2 and I want the system to use that compiler for my installation. But if Gentoo 1.4 isn't out by then, how should I install everything? If I just use 1.2 and the install guide, I'm guessing that won't give me what I want.

For that matter, I don't understand the point of Gentoo versions when you install everything from the latest sources anyway...??

I've been using mandrake for years, but I've never installed a Gentoo system so I'm not 100% sure how it all works. Please enlighten me! Thanks!

water · Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2002 7:09 am Post subject:

Maybe this helps: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=12881
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Torok · n00b Joined: 30 Jul 2002 Posts: 6

Thanks - I read that one before, but I'm not entirely sure what it means to me. I guess what I shouuld ask is: Will there be anything in 1.4 that I can't get by installing 1.2 with the right "profile"?

Vanquirius · Posted: Mon Aug 26, 2002 3:55 pm Post subject:

As long as you're using the right profile.... what you get is what you see.
My suggestion is that if you want to install Gentoo w/ GCC-3.2, instead of using the tarball included in the CD you do