Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1 , question on recompiling

2006-07-20 Thread Alexander Skwar
Philip Webb schrieb: A lot of outstanding bugs seem to affect only a few special users. Like those, using KDE. But I wouldn't say, that those a just a "few". Yet again, Gentoo should make a 4th category by making "stable" = "server" & splitting "testing" into "newly unmasked" & "desktop-read

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1 , question on recompiling

2006-07-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 20:06:13 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > > Running testing, most packages wb recompiled within a month anyway. > > I have a lot of "testing" packages, which run without problems. That's different to running a completely testing system, the vast majority of your packages are still

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1 , question on recompiling

2006-07-19 Thread Philip Webb
060719 Neil Bothwick wrote: > 060719 Philip Webb wrote: >> I upgraded to 4.1.1 a couple of weeks ago & haven't done a mass recompile >> & I have yet to run into any problem > I recompiled glibc, to be on the safe side > and KDE because it did have problems, but nothing else caused a problem. Yes,

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1 , question on recompiling

2006-07-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:34:08 +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > I upgraded to 4.1.1 a couple of weeks ago & haven't done a mass > > recompile & I have yet to run into any problem: yes, there's always > > tomorrow (grin). > I upgraded to 4.1.1 and ran into massive problems. People might > remember

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1 , question on recompiling

2006-07-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
Richard Broersma Jr wrote: >> Because of the problems I had, I would *NEVER* encourage people >> to *NOT* recompile everything. > > Sorry, but double negatives only confuse me. :-) Me too - sorry about that. > So you are advocating that everyone recompile everything. Yes, exactly. It *MIGHT* n

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1 , question on recompiling

2006-07-19 Thread Richard Broersma Jr
> Because of the problems I had, I would *NEVER* encourage people > to *NOT* recompile everything. Sorry, but double negatives only confuse me. :-) So you are advocating that everyone recompile everything. Regards, Richard Broersma Jr. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1 , question on recompiling

2006-07-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
Philip Webb wrote: > 060719 Alexander Skwar wrote: >> Leonardo wrote: >>> different versions of gcc and glibc can coexist in the same system >>> and all other installed programs should have no problem >>> if I choose the new gcc with gcc-config. >> The problem is the gcc package not only delivers t

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1 , question on recompiling

2006-07-19 Thread Philip Webb
060719 Alexander Skwar wrote: > Leonardo wrote: >> different versions of gcc and glibc can coexist in the same system >> and all other installed programs should have no problem >> if I choose the new gcc with gcc-config. > The problem is the gcc package not only delivers the gcc compiler package, >

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrading to gcc 4.1 , question on recompiling

2006-07-19 Thread Alexander Skwar
Leonardo wrote: > From what I've understand, different versions of gcc and glibc > can coexist in the same gentoo system, and all other installed > programs should have no problem if I choose the new gcc with > gcc-config. > > Am I right? Not quite. The problem is, that the gcc package not only