On 9/8/06, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am leaving my office in a moment to put the 2006.1 disk in a server to
> start a fresh build (it's a standby server and I can afford to have it
> off line for a day or 2) specifically to avoid having to do the gcc4
> upgrade. Ive done one so far and it took me 5 days and nearly cost me
> my laptop -- and I followed the gentoo guide specifically. There has
> GOT to be a better way. Sadly I cant take each of my servers offline to
> do upgrade them this way -- some I will have to risk on the GCC upgrade,
> but for now im avoiding it like the plague.
>
> Tim
I've followed the GCC upgrade guide before without problems, but now
I'm scared. Is all the trouble because of how Gentoo works or how GCC
works? What is the trouble like? Packages that won't compile, or
different things breaking in the system?
Methinks there is just a bit of FUD swirling around. I can't speak to
GCC 4.1 (may do it this afternoon) but the last time I did a GCC
upgrade (following the documentation) I had absolutely no problems
whatsoever. If you are really worried tar up your system as a backup
before you start.
-Mike
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