On 04/04/09 23:55, Alan McKinnon wrote:
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[1] http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml
This is complete nonsense advice. There is absolutely no need to rebuild the
entire system every time you upgrade compilers, and whoever told you that is
flat out wrong. If the gentoo docs told you that, then they are wrong, or
misplaced, or the person writing them is overcautious to the point of being
ridiculous. If this advice really was true, then a whole lot of stuff would
break all over the world:
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So in other words it was not necessary to recompile the entire system in this case going from gcc:
4.3.2 to 4.2.3 ?
Though, according to Gentoo guide, the second number has changed so this is a
major upgrade.
Not to mention it is good to take advantage of "native" flag.
--
Joseph
