gcc3 packages up for testing

apeiro · 2002-09-19 05:04:26

We now have gcc3-built packages up in a special temporary 'gcc3' repository, if anybody would like to risk uncertain death to test them.

If are dumb^H^H^H^Hbrave enough, you can upgrade your entire system by doing the following:

first edit your /etc/pacman.conf file. Comment out the entire 'current' block, then add the following two lines above it:

[gcc3]
Server = ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/0.3/os/i686-gcc3

then you need to freshen all your packages. Since pacman doesn't have a freshen operation yet, you can do it with some unix trickery:

yes | pacman -Sy `pacman -Q | awk '{print $1}'`

(note the backticks surrounding the last pacman command.)
That will download every package you already have installed and reinstall them with the gcc3 versions.

Good luck. If you run into troubles, let me know or post them here.

Arielext · 2002-09-21 14:13:56

I'm downloading the packages now

Ibiblio was a fast server in the good old days ...

ETA : 12 hours ... *begins to wistle*

Arielext · 2002-09-27 18:45:09

all GCC3 builds work nicely!
except for the well known Java issue Arch and GCC3 like each other
How many forummers are running the GCC 3 builds ?

apeiro · 2002-09-27 23:02:29

Yea, I'd like to see a show of hands too. Who's using gcc3? I know Jeepster and sarah31 are both using it.

mordantly · 2002-09-28 00:36:42

i would but my broadband aint on the dead arch box so i cant. :cry: but have no fear if i can dl em and manually install then ill give em a test drive fur u.

apeiro · 2002-10-03 01:41:15

I've just merged gcc3 packages to the current repository, so you'll all be getting a huge upgrade soon. Sorry for the inconvenience, but it's gotta be done.

Since gcc3 packages are in current you won't need the gcc3 repository anymore. If you were already using gcc3 packages, remove the gcc3 repository from your pacman.conf and re-enable the current one.

sarah31 · 2002-10-03 02:56:24

that's great! Will i still get the fluxbox error? I noticed that the actual package name is 0.1.11 and not 0.1.12 as it is in the db so it continues not to install.

mordantly · 2002-10-03 03:13:51

finally finished gettin the gcc3s. will add em tonight if my kernel problem is solved.

sarah31 · 2002-10-03 13:29:40

have downloaded all updates but that is all the install never starts. also xine has mystriously become strictly only capable of playing dvds. mplayer won't install as is protests about a bad /usr/bin/mencoder or something.

any advice is welcome especially for xine because i cannot be without the capability to play the various videos i have.

sarah31 · 2002-10-04 05:08:56

well i fixed my problems--wel except for mplayer but i don't care now that xine is fixed. xine -V Xv fixed xine and moving the archlinux.org server to the top of the current list fixed xfree86 which was the package causing the trouble because it was not complete (not even close actually).

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gcc3 packages up for testing

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