Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-11 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi michael, on Friday, 2006-09-08 at 08:44:05, you wrote: I hope my experience is better than yours. I'm in the middle of this process on a live system, been building since Monday (it's an old 600MHz box) I just upgraded one Pentium-M laptop; went fine save for a few hitches like Richard

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread Erik
Grant wrote: Does gcc-4.1 offer enough of an improvement to warrant remerging the whole system? No, just remerge the packages that need to be remerged. Then emerge the rest with gcc-4.1 when updates come. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 8. September 2006 05:07 schrieb ext Grant: Does gcc-4.1 offer enough of an improvement to warrant remerging the whole system? It's not a question of improvement, but of consistency, especially for C++ sw like KDE. The GCC upgrade guide doesn't tell you to do so just for the sake

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread Boris Fersing
2006/9/8, Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Grant wrote: Does gcc-4.1 offer enough of an improvement to warrant remerging the whole system? No, just remerge the packages that need to be remerged. Then emerge the rest with gcc-4.1 when updates come. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list If you want

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread jarry
Boris Fersing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does gcc-4.1 offer enough of an improvement to warrant remerging the whole system? No, just remerge the packages that need to be remerged. Then emerge the rest with gcc-4.1 when updates come. If you want to prevent compilation issues, applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/7/06, Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant wrote: Does gcc-4.1 offer enough of an improvement to warrant remerging the whole system? No, just remerge the packages that need to be remerged. Then emerge the rest with gcc-4.1 when updates come. Why do you advise people to ignore the

RE: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
And if you want to prevent compilation issues, applications crash, you'd better not follow the Gentoo GCC Upgrade Guide [1] and do not upgrade gcc at all... :-( Sorry for this sarcasm, but I am fighting with gcc-upgrade for more than week. If I knew there would be so many issues, I'd have

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread Dale
Timothy A. Holmes wrote: [Timothy A. Holmes] 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread Jean-Marc Beaune
I would call this discussion Re-installing the system with gcc-4.1 That's what I'm doing now after more than one week of struggle ! ;-) On 9/8/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Timothy A. Holmes wrote: [Timothy A. Holmes] I am leaving my office in a moment to put the 2006.1 disk in a server to

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread Grant
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 --

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread Michael Crute
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
For me the main problem was an error in 'eselect-compiler' ebuild file. After unmerging the package, /etc/env.d/05compiler file was not deleted. As a result, enviroment variables were invalid. After deleting the file (and 'env-update' and 'source /etc/profile') switching to 4.1.1 was seamless

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 18:37:55 +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: For me the main problem was an error in 'eselect-compiler' ebuild file. eselect-compiler is now hard-masked, so that shouldn't be a problem any more. To add some balance, I've upgraded four machines, on three different architectures, to

RE: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
-Original Message- From: Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 10:25 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1? I am leaving my office in a moment to put the 2006.1 disk in a server to start

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
It is masked *now*, but it wasn't masked *before*, and unmerging was not clean. I'm not the only who have lost plenty of time because of this portage error. === On Friday 08 September 2006 18:59, Neil Bothwick wrote: === On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 18:37:55 +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: For me

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread michael
Good one, Jean-Marc! I hope my experience is better than yours. I'm in the middle of this process on a live system, been building since Monday (it's an old 600MHz box) If you can read this email, my system is still running Michael On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Jean-Marc Beaune wrote: I would call

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread michael
, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Grant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 10:25 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1? I am leaving my office in a moment

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 19:26:34 +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Honest to $DEITY, my mailer picked the tagline! It is masked *now*, but it wasn't masked *before*, and unmerging was not clean. I'm not the only who have lost plenty of time because of this portage error. Yes, I specified that it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
I'm agree absolutely, I have switched to 4.1.1 already :-) Probably, it is not a bad idea to add a note about this trap somewhere in the official guide. === On Friday 08 September 2006 20:05, Neil Bothwick wrote: === On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 19:26:34 +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Honest to

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 08 September 2006 17:12, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: Most of my problems came in the stage of the revdep-rebuild things simply wouldn't build.  I finally solved it by un-installing as many of the offending packages as I could, multiple emerge --sync and about 10 attempts at

RE: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
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Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 08 September 2006 19:09, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: The guide that I followed is: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml Under section 3 Upgrading from GCC-3.3 to 3.4 or greater [SNIP] This particular rebuild was going from 3.3 to 4.0 so revdep-rebuild was indicated - That

RE: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
-Original Message- From: Bo Ørsted Andresen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 1:36 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1? On Friday 08 September 2006 19:09, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: The guide

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 08 September 2006 20:07, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: The guide that I followed is: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml Under section 3 Upgrading from GCC-3.3 to 3.4 or greater [SNIP] This particular rebuild was going from 3.3 to 4.0 so revdep-rebuild was

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/8/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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?

RE: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread Timothy A. Holmes
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Fish Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 3:50 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1? On 9/8/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/8/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a system that I apparently built using the wrong stage 3 Make.conf has chost as i386 but it's a Pentium 4 box Im just about to start the emerge eav system Should I wait and /or fix something b4 I proceed? You'll need to resolve

Re: [gentoo-user] Remerge the system with gcc-4.1?

2006-09-08 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Michael Crute wrote: 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