On Sunday 30 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:59:48 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > While cleaning up my machine, I unmerged gcc-3.3.6-r1 and the spare > > quickpkg I had of it. Now virtual/libstdc++ needs it and the build > > fails with the error: > > It doesn't need gcc-3.3, but that it the default it tries to install > if none of the providers of this are available. Install > sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 instead and the virtual will be happy. > > I'm sure the devs have a good reason for not making > sys-libs/libstdc++-v3 the default libstdc++ but /I'm not going to try > to guess what it may be ;-)
Yup, this works. Thanks Neil and Rudmer. In hindsight the answer was there in the ebuild all the time. I should have done what I usually do and read the thing! -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
