On 7 March 2017 at 19:38, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > > Please don't top post, it is disliked on this list. >
Sorry - a consequence of moving away from a proper mail client, and on to a web-based thing. > If you copied over /var/db/pkg you have a rather confused and messed up > system. The safest way to recreate it is probably to move the pkg > directory elsewhere and then run "emerge -e @world". > Yep! I think that would be a polite way of putting it! ;) > gcc is slotted, so emerging 4.9.4 will not touch your 5.4.0 installation, > you use gcc-config to choose which one to use. What does gcc-config -l > show? > Just the one line: [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.9.4 I *think*, that with little time and patience, I can now sort this out. Thanks for the emerge -e hint. It doesn't seem to be in the emerge man page, though. What is the long-option name? Kind regards, Phil
