Finally! After 2 whole days lost, I managed to emerge gcc-4.5.1-r1!

Apparently, emerge-ing gcc needs a quite-hefty hardware requirement:

• RAM: 1 GiB (failed at 500 MiB; havent tried 756 MiB)
• Hard Disk: 5 GiB (with 128 MB as /boot and 256 MB as swap; haven’t tried a smaller swap

Whew. Humongous requirement, if you ask me…

Now I’m experimenting whether it will be possible to emerge gcc-4.5.1-r1 without upgrading the already-existing gcc-4.4.5….

Until next dispatch. Keep strong!

Update: Apparently, it’s possible. Just do emerge -avu =sys-devel/gcc-4.5.1-r1, followed by gcc-config and then env-update && . /etc/profile. BUT, I haven’t confirmed that emerge -avuND @world will succeed, though…