Can anyone tell me if there is some way to tell emerge to use a specific compiler during an emerge?
I get this output during emerge of virutalbox-ose. Note that it says to use a version of gcc earlier than 4.3. Is there some way to do that without causing grief somewhere else? [...] VirtualBox-2.0.6-OSE.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> cfg-update-1.8.2-r1: Creating checksum index... * there are known problems with gcc 4.3 and the virtualbox * recompiler stuff. Please use at least a version of gcc < 4.3 * * ERROR: app-emulation/virtualbox-ose-2.0.6 failed. * Call stack: * ebuild.sh, line 49: Called pkg_setup * virtualbox-ose-2.0.6.ebuild, line 54: Called die * The specific snippet of code: * die "gcc 4.3 cannot build the virtualbox recompiler" * The die message: * gcc 4.3 cannot build the virtualbox recompiler [...]