On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 03:24:16PM -0800, Penguin Lover jerry squawked:
> I decided to go ahead and upgrade gcc-3.3.6 to 3.4.5. I am following the 
> gentoo linux gcc upgrade guide carefully. I have already completed the 
> emerge -e system, and will start emerge -e world.
> 
> backup jerry # equery -C l gcc
> [ Searching for package 'gcc' in all categories among: ]
> * installed packages
> [I--] [  ] sys-devel/gcc-3.3.6 (3.3)
> [I--] [  ] sys-devel/gcc-3.4.5 (3.4)
> [I--] [  ] sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.12-r6 (0)
> 
> My gut says it is not right to have 2 versions of gcc installed.

It is perfectly fine. 

[08:00 PM]wwong profiles $ gcc-config -l
 [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5-20050130
 [2] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5-20050130-hardenednopie
 [3] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5-20050130-hardenednopiessp
 [4] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5-20050130-hardenednossp
 [5] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.3.5-20050130-vanilla
 [6] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5 *
 [7] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5-hardenednopie
 [8] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5-hardenednopiessp
 [9] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5-hardenednossp
 [10] i686-pc-linux-gnu-3.4.5-vanilla

In fact, some pesty programs won't compile on the 3.4 branch (in my
case, wine compiled with 3.4.* would segfault on start, but runs fine
with 3.3.5). 

W
 
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