I was indeed using USE=vanilla to get gcc 4.5.3 to compile and it
appears that all my issues where caused by this useflag.

So I removed this useflag and masked >sys-devel/gcc-4.2.4-r01.

Thanks a lot!

Regards,

Nicolas

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Fabian Groffen <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 23-10-2011 23:36:12 -0400, Martin Luessi wrote:
>> Did you by any chance emerge gcc with the "vanilla" useflag enabled? I
>> am asking since I had similar problems when I was installing
>> gentoo-prefix on CentOS a few weeks ago. Gcc 4.5.3 wouldn't compile
>> without the "vanilla" useflag enabled, so I enabled it. After that
>> many packages failed to compile since they were being linked against
>> system libraries instead of the prefix ones. What I did is mask gcc
>> versions that are too new (>4.2.4 in my case) to be compatible with
>> the CentOs glibc.
>
> Oh, thanks for the hint.  I guess we should either mask vanilla, or
> apply the critial prefix patches for this regardless of USE=vanilla.
>
> Mind filing a bug for this?
>
> Thanks a lot for the insight!
>
>
> --
> Fabian Groffen
> Gentoo on a different level
>



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