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[Seth Alan Woolley <seth AT positivism.org>]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:44:56AM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> 
> If possible I'd rather have David Brown's gcc changes[0] in along with
> this, once he's done testing them and if Arwed approves. ;)
> 
> If those changes are a no-go or we'd rather put them into devel
> /after/ the current gcc 4.0 goes to test I'm fine with that as well. I
> /would/ like some (I'll have one of my chroots do this) testing of a
> current gcc 3.4 -> gcc 4.0 system update.
> 
> -sandalle
> 
> [0] David has been working on allowing all compilers to be installed
> alongside each other and outside of /opt. All we'd do to 'set' the
> default compiler is change the version in the now-meta-spells gcc and
> g++ (these setup the symlinks for whichever version they're setup
> for).

Yes, this is a better way of doing it, as we don't run into the issue of 
version updates forcing a gcc->gccNN recompile.

Seth

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