Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any reason to keep older gcc?

On (30/12/07 16:18) Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2007-12-28, Qian Qiao <qian.qiao@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> Would there be any reason to keep the older gcc 3.46? I'm
> >> not familiar enough with Gentoo "under-the-hood" to decide.
> >
> > Try "equery depends =gcc-3*", without the quotes obviously.
> >
> > If none of the packages you installed depends on gcc-3*, you should be
> > able to get rid of it safely.
>
> That's not been my experience. For example, Qemu won't compile
> with gcc-4, yet doesn't have gcc-3 as a dependancy.
>
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Hi,

qemu is just a meta-ebuild, in ~x86 qemu-softmmu-0.9.0-r1: pkg_setup() {
 if [ "$(gcc-major-version)" == "4" ]; then  eerror "qemu requires gcc-3 in order to build and work  correctly"
 eerror "please compile it switching to gcc-3."  eerror "We are aware that qemu can guess a gcc-3 but  this feature"
 eerror "could be harmful."
 die "gcc 4 cannot build q
fi
Rumen

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