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
[...]


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