Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 ---> 4.4.1

2009-08-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 15 August 2009 19:37:05 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Samstag 15 August 2009 19:24:09 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > > system has to be rebuilt twice. When you get a new toolchain > > ("system"), you need to rebuilt it with itself. The first time you do > > that, it is rebuilt using the *o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 ---> 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 15 August 2009 19:25:39 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > A common misunderstanding is that you have to rebuild gcc twice. This is > not true as gcc's own build system in fact builds gcc three times and does > a binary diff between the last two, the build only proceeds if they are > bit-for- bit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 ---> 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 15 August 2009 19:24:09 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > system has to be rebuilt twice. When you get a new toolchain > ("system"), you need to rebuilt it with itself. The first time you do > that, it is rebuilt using the *old* toolchain. The second time it is > rebuilt using the *new* t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 ---> 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 15 August 2009 19:18:36 Mark Knecht wrote: > I've also done two builds of gcc instead of two @system builds. I > think that accomplishes the same thing, but what do I know as there > are no guarantees! ;-) Look at gcc's makefiles. It builds gcc with the old compiler then uses that ne

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 ---> 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 15 August 2009 19:06:54 Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Samstag 15 August 2009 18:42:11 schrieb Mark Knecht: > > Code Listing 2.2: Rebuilding system > > > > # emerge -eav system > > # emerge -eav world > > I still wonder about this one. Doesn't world include system, so that the > above would

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 ---> 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 15 August 2009 18:42:11 Mark Knecht wrote: > Alan, >I agree with your description, but I disagree that the upgrade > guide is actually very clear about this. It has us upgrade the > compiler (OK), switch to the new compiler (OK), rebuild the libtool > stuff (OK) then then states: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 ---> 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Samstag 15 August 2009 18:42:11 schrieb Mark Knecht: >> Code Listing 2.2: Rebuilding system >> >> # emerge -eav system >> # emerge -eav world > > I still wonder about this one. Doesn't world include system, so that the above > would resul

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 ---> 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/15/2009 07:42 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> [...] >>    I agree with your description, but I disagree that the upgrade >> guide is actually very clear about this. It has us upgrade the >> compiler (OK), switch to the new compiler (OK)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 ---> 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Samstag 15 August 2009 18:42:11 schrieb Mark Knecht: > Code Listing 2.2: Rebuilding system > > # emerge -eav system > # emerge -eav world I still wonder about this one. Doesn't world include system, so that the above would result in rebuilding a vast amount of packages twice? Bye...

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 ---> 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 08/15/2009 03:33 AM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: >> >> [...] >> This being 4.3.4 to 4.1.1 looks like a major version change according >> to the upgrade guide.  It doesn't mention what a switch manual takes, >> but it does list a whole seri

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 ---> 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 15 August 2009 02:33:56 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: >> This being 4.3.4 to 4.1.1 looks like a major version change according >> to the upgrade guide.  It doesn't mention what a switch manual takes, >> but it does list a whole series o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 ---> 4.4.1

2009-08-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 15 August 2009 02:33:56 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > This being 4.3.4 to 4.1.1 looks like a major version change according > to the upgrade guide. It doesn't mention what a switch manual takes, > but it does list a whole series of steps such as remerging system and > world without saying

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gcc 4.3.4 ---> 4.4.1

2009-08-14 Thread felix
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 04:29:17PM -0700, walt wrote: > On 08/14/2009 04:17 PM, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: > > Are any special steps needed to handle this upgrade, other than using > > gcc-config to change the current selection? Do I need to follow the > > upgrade docs, such as remergeing system an