On 02/02/2017 01:57 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 02/02/2017 10:49 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
>> On 02/02/2017 01:36 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
>>> On Thu, Feb 02, 2017 at 10:47:48AM -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote
>>>
>>>> On gcc-4.8.5 on my system boost-1.62.0-r1 was failing as well
>>>> I switched to gcc-4.9.3 and it emerges just fine.
>>>
>>>   I see that you still haven't fully upgraded your system.  Looking at
>>> my /usr/portage/seys-devel/gcc subdirectory, the date stamps on the
>>> ebuilds are...
>>>
>>> -rw-r--r--  1  1408 Dec 28  2015 gcc-4.8.5.ebuild
>>> -rw-r--r--  1  1408 Jun 21  2016 gcc-4.9.3.ebuild
>>> -rw-r--r--  1  1408 Dec 20 11:36 gcc-4.9.4.ebuild
>>>
>>>   gcc-4.9.4 is the current default stable version, as of Dec 20th.
>>
>> Yes, I have this gcc-4.9.4 but prefer older stable branch; if I'll be
>> experiencing some compilation problems I'll switch to 4.9.4 :-)
> 
> 4.8 is not "older" actually. It's ancient :-P

gcc-stable = 'If it ain't broke, don't fix it'

That is why I switched to 9.4.3

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Thelma

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