[Sussex] Gentoo and gcc updating?

[Geoffrey J. Teale]

"John D." <john at johnsemail.eclipse.co.uk> writes:

> Morning list,

Good morning

> So, how would I work out which version of gcc I'm using with the
> system?

gcc --version

.. that is true for all applications than comply with the GNU Coding Style.

>
> Would it just be a case of "emerge gcc x.x.x" or is there other stuff
> that I'd have to get?

I imagine doing so would force a massive amount of recompiling on a
Gentoo system - though this may not necessarily be true.

> and finally,
>
> Would I have to recompile the system, if so, how would I do that?

Well, as I hinted at above - Gentoo may well do this for you whether
you like it or not.

Technically you shouldn't need to recompile most things because the
last break in binary compatibility was early in the 3.x series, but I
imagine Gentoo's chain of dependencies would be routed quite heavily
in a GCC version.

A quick question.  Why do you want to upgrade GCC?  

-- 
Geoff Teale
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