In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: > On Sonntag 28 Juni 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: >> Roger Mason writes: >> > I need gcc 4.3 to compile a specific application. I am hoping that I >> > can install gcc 4.3 alongside 4.1.1 without suffering some awful >> > catastrophe. This is the output of emerge on the machine in question: >> >> [...] >> >> > Can someone confirm that I'll be able to use gcc 4.3 for the specific >> > application that needs it but then revert to 4.1.1 without having to >> > re-compile all or most of my system? >> >> I'm pretty sure you can. Emerge gcc 4.3, activate it with gcc-config, >> compile your application, and use gcc-config again to revert back to 4.1 if >> you like. >> >> Or keep 4.3 as default, I don't think you could run into problems. >> >> Wonko > > he will over time. If you switch default compiler emerge -s world has to be > done. > > But seriously, why staying with 4.1? it's old... and 4.3 was a nice release...
Well, for me, media-plugins/mytharchive won't compile with gcc 4.3. Hopefully things will change with the next mythtv release. -- Regards, Gregory.
