New ebuilds and gcc 2.95.3

gijoe · Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 11:04 am Post subject: New ebuilds and gcc 2.95.3

Hello world,

I'm one of those people still using gcc 2.95.3, since I'm much to lazy recompiling my entire system with a newer version. However, new ebuilds seems to need gcc 3.2.x. First there was app-games/cube, and now there's x11-wm/icewm-1.2.3.

Is this a trend? Must I upgrade to gcc 3.2.x?

ebrostig · Posted: Tue Feb 11, 2003 9:57 pm Post subject:

I don't think you NEED to upgrade or to replace your current gcc version. You could however, install both of them as I have and just swicth before emerging certain ebuilds.

Hint: Use gcc-config --list-profiles after installing both to verify they are recognized.

Swicthing is easy as gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.2.2 or i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.95.3. Then do env-update && source /etc/profile && emerge whatever

This makes it easy to swicth back and forth.

On another note, I think more and more ebuilds will start using the latest version. Why? Well, I'm sure the developers of the programs in question will start using new features in gcc 3.x.

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peter_poulsen · Guru Joined: 12 Feb 2003 Posts: 387 Location: Denmark

Hi.

The following is a little conversation that I had with my computer. As I understand It hasn't switched the compiler. Does anybody know why?

localhost root # gcc --version
2.95.3
localhost root # gcc-config --get-current-profile
i686-pc-linux-gnu-2.95.3
localhost root # gcc-config i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.2.1
* Switching to i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.2.1 compiler... [ ok ]
localhost root # gcc-config --get-current-profile
i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.2.1
localhost root # env-update && source /etc/profile
>>> Regenerating /etc/ld.so.cache...
localhost root # gcc --version
2.95.3

masseya · Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2003 3:42 pm Post subject:

That's not a very heartwarming conversation. I'll provide the obligatory like to Pitfalls of using GCC - 3.2.1-r6 where you'll be able to learn all you wanted to know about gcc 3.2.1 on gentoo and more. I don't remember reading that particular problem before though. :roll:

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