Re: [gentoo-user] emerging older compilers

2019-05-30 Thread karl
Karl Hammar: > For testing purposes, I would like to install older compilers, > e.g. testing with older kernels. > > I have tried to install e.g. gcc-5.4.0-r4, gcc-4.9.4, and > gcc-3.4.6-r2.ebuild (package.unmask is upd. for theese), but it fails. I have found out that I can install thoose

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging older compilers

2018-12-02 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sun, Dec 02, 2018 at 11:21:55AM +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote > so that means I'm on my own. You can install a *NON*-default gcc in ${HOME} This is a two-step process. I used to do this a couple of years ago when Pale Moon was limited in what versions of gcc it would build on. Note that

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging older compilers

2018-12-02 Thread karl
Andreas: > Policy is that you *should* be able to go back in steps of two versions. > Eg. emerge 4.8 with 5.0 ... # gcc-config -l [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-6.4.0 * [2] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-7.3.0 # That means, go from 6.4 -> 6.2 -> 6.0 -> ... ? But I don't have thoose ebuilds: $ ls -1

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging older compilers

2018-11-30 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
Policy is that you *should* be able to go back in steps of two versions. Eg. emerge 4.8 with 5.0 ... However, this is occasionally broken, so please file bugs with the detailed logs and versions. Am Freitag, 30. November 2018, 19:25:46 CET schrieb k...@aspodata.se: > For testing purposes, I

[gentoo-user] emerging older compilers

2018-11-30 Thread karl
For testing purposes, I would like to install older compilers, e.g. testing with older kernels. I have tried to install e.g. gcc-5.4.0-r4, gcc-4.9.4, and gcc-3.4.6-r2.ebuild (package.unmask is upd. for theese), but it fails. You usually install a newer compiler with the older (and that is well