Re: Compiler in "testing"
"Christopher C. Chimelis" wrote:
>
> On Sun, 16 Dec 2001, Donald R. Spoon wrote:
>
> > During one of my periodic updates of my Alpha "testing" install
> > recently, I noticed that it yanked the gcc-2.95-4 package and replaced
> > it with gcc-3.0. Now when I do a "gcc -v" I get the default version to
> > be "gcc version 3.0.2 (Debian)".
> >
> > Has the Alpha "Woody" moved entirely to gcc-3.0.2 or have I messed
> > something up on this end? The 2.95 version seems to still be the
> > "standard" for Woody on my i386 machines. Sorry if this has been
> > discussed elsewhere and is common knowledge, but I only follow this
> > mailing list + Debian User + Debian testing + Debian KDE.
>
> That's odd...especially considering how there was never a version of
> gcc-defaults built that pointed to gcc-3.0. Can you send me the output
> of:
> dpkg -l gcc
dad@bilbo:~$ dpkg -l gcc
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
pn gcc <none> (no description available)
> dpkg -l gcc-2.95
dad@bilbo:~$ dpkg -l gcc-2.95
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
pn gcc-2.95 <none> (no description available)
> dpkg -l gcc-3.0
dad@bilbo:~$ dpkg -l gcc-3.0
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|
Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii gcc-3.0 3.0.2-4 The GNU C compiler.
Chris,
The requested output is inserted above per your request. This happened
about 2-3 nights ago, and several other packages were "removed". I
cannot recall exactly which ones, but one of them was the kernel-source
for 2.2.19. None were anthing "critical" so I let it go ahead.
Another thing that might be responsible, is that I was fooling around
with the Compaq C compiler a few months ago and I DID change the gcc
pointer to point to it. I have NOT removed it (CCC) to the best of my
recollection. This might have messed up something in the package
installer...dunno. Currently /usr/bin/gcc is linked to gcc-3.0 and I
can't really find any reference to the Compaq C Compiler anymore.... I
forget if I have done a re-install since then or not. I suspect I have,
which would have wiped out the previous CCC install.
I just re-installed gcc-2.95 and all is well now. The responses to the
above "dpkg -l" commands show it there and linked properly.
Cheers,
-Don Spoon-
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