On Monday 10 August 2015 13:03:14 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 10 Aug 2015 11:32:01 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Has anyone any advice on whether it's a good idea to add a keyword to > > gcc-4.9.2 so that I can make progress here? This is a stable box and > > I'd like to know whether this one, rather central ~amd64 package would > > cause trouble. > > I've been using ~amd64 GCC on my MythTV boxes, which run mainly stable, > for a long time. I would keep 4.8 installed too, just in case the odd > package still doesn't like 4.9. Ironically, on my MythTV boxes, the only > package that fails with 4.9 is MythTV :-O
That's reassuring - thanks Neil. Will I also have to upgrade bin-utils and libtool to ~ versions? I think those two need recompiling with a new gcc version, before any of the rest of the system. -- Rgds Peter
