Policy is that you *should* be able to go back in steps of two versions. 
Eg. emerge 4.8 with 5.0 ...

However, this is occasionally broken, so please file bugs with the detailed 
logs and versions.


Am Freitag, 30. November 2018, 19:25:46 CET schrieb k...@aspodata.se:
> For testing purposes, I would like to install older compilers,
> e.g. testing with older kernels.
> 
> I have tried to install e.g. gcc-5.4.0-r4, gcc-4.9.4, and
> gcc-3.4.6-r2.ebuild (package.unmask is upd. for theese), but it fails.
> 
>  You usually install a newer compiler with the older (and that is
> well tested), but has anyone tried it the other way ?
> 
> Regards,
> /Karl Hammar
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Aspö Data
> Lilla Aspö 148
> S-742 94 Östhammar
> Sweden


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Andreas K. Hüttel
dilfri...@gentoo.org
Gentoo Linux developer
(council, toolchain, perl, libreoffice, comrel)

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