--- Adam James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 10:33:56 -0700 (PDT) Vieri > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Is it really impossible to downgrade to 3.4.6? > > I think you've confused gcc with glibc. gcc is a > slotted package, so > you can run 3.x and 4.x concurrently without any > problems. You must > use `gcc-config' to select which compiler the system > will use by > default. > > glibc on the other hand is not slotted, and _cannot_ > be downgraded > (unless you really know what you're doing). > > You will encounter problems if you try to set your > profile to hardened > when you have installed the system with a release > >2006.0, as these > include a version of glibc that is hard masked in > the hardened profiles.
I see, but the thing is that my system has sys-libs/glibc-2.3.6-r5. I used 2006.1, made the symlink to hardened profile and rsync'ed immediately and emerged system and world. According to forum post: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-539616-highlight-gcc+hardened.html the "trouble" you're referring to should happen if one has glibc-2.4.x. or later, am I right? I don't want to bother this list too much with my novice questions. Could you please just let me know if I can have a hardened system with sys-libs/glibc-2.3.6-r5 and gcc-4.1.1 and/or gcc-3.4.6? Thank you very much for your time. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a PS3 game guru. Get your game face on with the latest PS3 news and previews at Yahoo! Games. http://videogames.yahoo.com/platform?platform=120121 -- [email protected] mailing list
