upgrading gcc

William Davis frstan at bellsouth.net
Thu Apr 24 16:33:46 PDT 2008


sudo  port -df uninstall foo @1.2.3   (=version you are uninstalling
OR
sudo port -df uninstall inactive

On Apr 24, 2008, at 4:31 PM, Alejandro Aragon wrote:

> I did read that. My question is if I can simply uninstall afterwards  
> the version that is not active.
>
> aa
>
> On Apr 24, 2008, at 3:26 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:
>
>> Alejandro Aragon wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I saw there is an upgrade to GCC. I saw that in order to uninstall  
>>> the  old version I have to use the -u option to the upgrade  
>>> command. Now,  the ideal thing would be of course to upgrade it  
>>> and if the upgraded  version works, to uninstall the old version.  
>>> Is this something that  can be done after upgrading? I'm concerned  
>>> about not using the -u  option and then having both the upgraded  
>>> and the outdated versions of  the same compiler in the system.  
>>> Thank you all,
>>
>> You can have multiple versions installed, but only one of them  
>> being active.
>>
>> Read more about it in our guide,
>> http://guide.macports.org/#internals.images
>>
>> Rainer
>
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