On Sonntag 28 Juni 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann writes: > > On Sonntag 28 Juni 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: > >> Or keep 4.3 as default, I don't think you could run into problems. > > > > he will over time. If you switch default compiler emerge -s world has to > > be done. > > According to Alan McKinnon's (and my own experience), this is not > necessary, unless there are ABI changes. But there were none between 4.1 > and 4.3. > > http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org/msg83724.html > > Wonko
you don't have to compile between 4.2.0 and 4.2.1 - sure. But with 4.2 to 4.3 I only got a stable system after compiling everything with the same compiler. So whatever Alan says - I know how borked my box was with half of the libs compiled by one compiler and the rest by the other.
