Holly Bostick wrote: >$ useflag multislot >/usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:sys-devel/binutils:multislot - >Allow for multiple versions of binutils to be emerged at once for same >CTARGET >/usr/portage/profiles/use.local.desc:sys-devel/gcc:multislot - Allow for >SLOTs to include minor version (3.3.4 instead of just 3.3) > >
Ah, thanks. I didn't know about use.local.desc. Cool alias. >All I've got is gcc, I haven't even gotten around to installing prelink >yet. And I can't imagine that any of these programs (gcc, prelink, and >elfutils, which prelink requires), would need some old version of >binutils hanging around, especially since I would be keeping these >reverse dependencies up-to-date. > > Right. These other dependancies just need to be able to run a program from binutils (ld, ar, etc). That kind if dependancy is much more stable than actually linking to libraries provided by a package. BTW, one of the advantages of prelink is that it will fairly quickly identify every program on the system with a broken library dependancy. I know revdep-rebuild does this too, but prelink is faster. >So you're probably right; I can most likely remove multislot from both >binutils and gcc (since I only mean to have one version of GCC anyway), >recompile everything *yet again* (just to be safe; this system is > > I know the feeling...can't wait until I can buy a dual-core laptop. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
