On Friday 16 June 2006 15:10, Sven Köhler wrote:
> i just wanted to ask, if the is an eclass or something else, that
> enables me to temporarly select a certain gcc-version? or perhaps just
> finding the path to the gcc and g++ executables of a specific
> gcc-versions (like gcc-3.*)?

no, there isnt ... while you may want to do this in your own ebuilds to work 
around problems, the answer is "not a chance" for anything going into the 
tree

> some software, like qemu and others, are simply not compatible with gcc
> 4.x and they will not become compatible due to severe conceptional issues.

then they stay broken ... add a warning to the ebuild if `gcc-major-version` 
is "4" (see toolchain-funcs.eclass)
-mike

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