[FIXED] emerge vlc wants to install old version of gcc

[pwaring]

I'm trying to install vlc so that I play media files and watch DVDs, but when I run 'emerge vlc -p' this appears in the output:

[ebuild NS ] sys-devel/gcc-3.3.6-r1 USE="fortran nls (-altivec) -bootstrap -
boundschecking -build -doc -gcj -gtk (-hardened) (-ip28) (-ip32r10k) (-multilib)
-multislot (-n32) (-n64) -nocxx -nopie -nossp -objc -test -vanilla"

I've already got gcc 4.1.2 installed, and I really don't want gcc 3.3.6 because it's a much older version and gcc takes forever to compile. Is there a good reason why vlc is trying to install 3.3.6, or have I configured something incorrectly? (it's a fairly new install, the only things I've done so far is to install X, fluxbox and gdm and their dependancies). This`is on a Pentium Centrino laptop and my make.conf looks like this:

[didymos]

It actually wants libstdc++-v3, and that's part of gcc. Portage defaults to building the whole compiler, when it should default to building just the c++ library. It behaves properly on my machine, and I can't figure out why it keeps doing this to other people. Anyway, emerge sys-libs/libstdc++-v3, then vlc. It might not even be vlc, seeing as virtual/libstdc++ isn't in it's dependencies. It's either something it's pulling in that requires that lib, or some package you already have requires it.
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Thomas S. Howard

[pwaring]

Cheers, that did the trick, although it would be better if portage didn't try to build the entire compiler, especially when a later version of gcc is already installed. I'll see if I can play around with that later and narrow the problem down sufficiently to file a bug report.

[desultory]

Moved from Multimedia to Duplicate Threads, refer to topic "Portage wants me to merge gcc 3?!".