On or near Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 10:45:29AM -0800, Edward Poe wrote something along the lines of: <snip> > Now for the questions: What kind of grief am > I asking for when I look to upgrade packages like gcc, > glibc, and kernel? Oddly enough, the a kernel upgrade > doesn't scare me as much as gcc and glibc do. > <snippity snip>
If you are going to upgrade part of your toolchain (i.e. binutils, glibc, gcc) you should probably rebuild the entire system. There have been tales of successfully upgrading glibc on a running system, but I've never done it and I wouldn't suggest venturing down that road unless you really enjoy making your life difficult (hey some of us do...) Upgrading gcc from one patch version to another usually isn't a big deal, e.g. from gcc-4.0.1 to gcc-4.0.2. But you weird things might start happening if you have some binaries compiled with 4.0 and you ugrade it to 4.1, etc. You will most certainly have issues if you try to go from one major version to another, which can be seen in the -dev mailing list archives around the times a new gcc version comes out ( see from 2.95 to 3 and from 3 to 4 ). Have fun and good luck! Mike -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
