last I checked, the gcc4 ebuild isn't even hard-masked yet... it exists, but that's about it. Don't know if the "gentoo-user" list is the best place to ask this question at this moment.
OTOH, searching around on the gentoo forums, it seems that some people are adventurous enough. Some problems they reported: glibc 2.3.5 does not adhere to gcc4's strictness wget won't compile openssh won't compile e2fsprogs won't compile ...and more There's one gigantic gcc 4.0 thread in the forums, it began life as gcc 3.4.0 thread, however, go a bit past half way before you hit the 4.0 stuff. to quote "irf2003" whom many on the thread agreed as "the one to listen to": Don't mess ur box up! You are on stable, with gcc4 you need to go beyond "~x86". Play with it in a chroot. The only advantage of gcc4 at this time is that it compiles fast. If you want a real boost to your system, go for gcc-3.4.x, you will not regret it. It's literally like having a hardware upgrade, when one is migrating from gcc 3.3. Give it a try. HTH, W On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 12:57:30AM -0400, Jerry McBride wrote: > > Anyone done anything "big" with the new compiler yet? Like an "emerge -e > world"? > > > -- > > ****************************************************************************** > Registered Linux User Number 185956 > FSF Associate Member number 2340 since 05/20/2004 > Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net > Buy an Xbox for $149.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $150.00! > 1:03am up 15 days, 8:10, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 > -- > [email protected] mailing list -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- * Address: 45 Spelman Hall, Princeton University 08544 * * Phone: x68958 AIM: AngularJerk * * E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: sep.dynalias.net * ---------------------------------------------------------------- The longest word in the English language is the one that follows "And now a word from out sponsor." ~Jack Benny Sortir en Pantoufles: up 12 days, 15:40 -- [email protected] mailing list
