Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2007-02-15, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>> I know -- that's what I do now (except the other way around) >>> for packages that require gcc 4. I just figured I wait to do >>> the big switch/recompile until I can get rid of 3.4 completely. >>> >>> I'll probably just do a clean reinstall at that point. When I >>> switched gcc from 3.2 to 3.3, it would have been a lot less >>> work to just re-install from scratch. >>> >> When I switched a while back, I found a script to do the recompile on >> the forums that worked very well. It is better than doing a system >> twice then a world on top of that. I have a copy of the script if you >> would like to use it but it is on the forums somewhere. I may can find >> it. I think it is in the documentation tips and tricks section, I think. >> > > I think I've seen it. The last time I around I followed a > script in a HOWTO using revdep-rebuild, and I ran into a lot of > problems during the re-compile: there were about a half dozen > packages that wouldn't rebuild. Getting things going again > required about two days of masking different versions of > different packages (each of which required masking a bunch of > dependencies to get compatible versions of everything). > >
I had a few that wouldn't compile, not because of the script though, but I just skipped those and fixed them later on. I didn't have any more trouble than I did when I did a emerge world without the script before though. I'm not sure I ever made it through a emerge world without something failing. I have a lot of packages so something has to go wrong somewhere. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/dalek1967
