Upgrading gcc, glibc & binutils

2005-07-28 Thread Laurens Blankers
Hello all, I have a LFS 6.0 system and I was wondering if it is save to upgrade gcc, glibc and binutils to the new versions in 6.1. Will such an upgrade break anything? Make the system unusable? Or should it be safe? In case of a glibc upgrade I guess I should also upgrade the kernel headers. Lau

Re: Upgrading gcc, glibc & binutils

2005-07-28 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Laurens Blankers wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a LFS 6.0 system and I was wondering if it is save to upgrade gcc, > glibc and binutils to the new versions in 6.1. Will such an upgrade break > anything? Make the system unusable? Or should it be safe? In case of a glibc > upgra

Re: Upgrading gcc, glibc & binutils

2005-07-28 Thread Matthew Burgess
Ken Moffat wrote: For glibc, the _safe_ advice is always to rebuild the whole system :) I can personally attest to that, having made the fatal error of doing a 'make install' from the wrong xterm and overwriting the host's libc. Not even 'ls' coped with that tiny mistake! Binutils and gc

Question on upgrading gcc,glibc,binutils, and kernel

2007-12-14 Thread Brian Clark
First of all thank you for help on the kernel configuration (I went to the newest version). I now have two questions if you update gcc, glibc, or binutils: Do you have to start back with 5.1 or can you build these with older versions that were in tools if it was preserved? My second question is w

Re: Question on upgrading gcc,glibc,binutils, and kernel

2007-12-14 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Dec 14, 2007 2:53 PM, Brian Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First of all thank you for help on the kernel configuration (I went to the > newest version). I now have two questions if you update gcc, glibc, or > binutils: Do you have to start back with 5.1 or can you build these with > older v