Upgrading gcc and glibc (agian) <OT>

[Geoff]

On Sat, 02 Aug 2003 08:23:43 -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
> 
> Yes, you are likely to encounter all of the above, and no, there is no
> quick fix.  I do have a permanent solution to offer:  install gentoo.  I
> have nothing against LFS - a perfectly fine distro, and a good learning
> experience, but using LFS means that you must become your own dependancy
> wizard (time and again).  I'm basically lazy.  Although it is a matter
> of reading interest to know that package A depends upon B that depends
> upon libs D E F which may in turn break package G etc., I don't want to
> deal with that myself. For that work, I've hired a world wide team of
> subject matter experts at a very reasonable price (namely zippo): the
> gentoo development team.

Thanks Collins.

Until a year ago the only distro I had run in earnest was SuSE - having
used most of v.6 and v.7.  I had reached the point where I was running
vanilla kernels and almost all my applications were self-compiled - so the
rpm stuff was mostly just getting in the way, and the complexity of the
distro (lots of indirection), was a bar to me learning more.  I decided it
was Gentoo or LFS and I actually installed Gentoo first.  I could see all
the advantages, yet the very convenience of e-builds again left me feeling
that I was not fully in control and would not learn as much as I wanted.
Also, at that time, there seemed to a couple of issues with Gentoo - the
one that springs to mind was CUPS, which I could not get going and one of
the CUPS gurus was saying loud and long that the e-build was defective.  I
therefore took myself off to LSF and I have *really* enjoyed it - but I
admit that it now leaves me with this big problem of updating the gcc /
glibc core.  It is not that I mind rebuilding LFS / BLFS itself, but the
hours of post-installation fine-tuning will be a pain - I should have kept
better notes as I went along. I have been toying with the idea of Gentoo
again recently and I will certainly consider is seriously before I do a
fresh LFS installation.

Regards,

Geoff