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ZappingLinux
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 Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2017 9:06 am Post subject: Gcc 6.4 [SOLVED NO COFFEE NO BRAIN] |
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So I noticed that gcc 6.4 is now in stable. This is great for me because that means I can finally use some compile flags for my assembly programs that weren't available before. However, when I run
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sudo emerge --ask sys-devel/gcc
* IMPORTANT: 3 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
* Use eselect news read to view new items.
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] sys-devel/gcc-5.4.0-r3
Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] no
Quitting.
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This says version 5.4 is the available one. So obviously I am missing something here. Anybody know what?
Of course, I might just interpret this page wrong https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/sys-devel/gcc in which case I dont quite understand it 
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asturm
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2017 9:24 am Post subject: |
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1.: Read your news items
2.: When did you last emerge --sync?
3.: amd64, x86, ppc and ppc64 are stable
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ZappingLinux
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| Posted: Mon Nov 20, 2017 9:27 am Post subject: |
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2.: When did you last emerge --sync?
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whoops..... I really need to get some coffee and properly wake up. But that didn't do it for me. Running emerge --ask sys-devel/gcc still returns 5.4. The news items also dont say anything particularly important. |
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Hu
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| As a general bit of advice, if Portage doesn't pick the package version you want, you should tell it what you want. In this case, emerge --pretend --verbose =sys-devel/gcc-6\* would either do what you want or, more likely, fail out with an error explaining why Portage refuses to pick gcc-6. You can then use that error to understand why the unqualified name did not pick the version you wanted. |
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