On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 9:45 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > on my embedded system I currently ran into a problem: > > As adviced after a greater world update I did > > emerge --depclean -vp > > beside other stuff sys-devel/gcc was shown as candidate > for removal. An old version was shown for removal and > a newer one was shown as preserved. > > I checked with eselect, whether the new version was selected > (it was), made a backup and started emerge --depclean -v. > > As soon it has removed gcc, a firework of error brightened > my terminal...beside other things the shell failed while > trying to access libgcc (if I had recognized that correctly...). > > Technically no problem: I stopped that, cleared the sdcard > and installed the backup...but what did I wrong here? > > What is the correct way to handle such things? > > Best regards, > Meino > > > > > > You may want to go over the instructions given in the https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Upgrading_GCC guide, just in case you might have overlooked something, unless you've already done that.

