From: jmcbride@mail-on.us   
      
   Nikos Chantziaras wrote:   
      
   > (I'm new to Gentoo.)   
   >   
   > Trying to install GCC 4.3 with:   
   >   
   >    emerge -uav ">=gcc-4.3"   
   >   
   > says that sys-devel/gcc-4.3.0 is masked (missing keyword).  I've read   
   > the docs on gentoo.org and it says that on "missing keyword" packages, I   
   > have to add "~amd64" to the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS variable to be able to   
   > accept unstable packages.  I've done that (in /etc/make.conf), but still   
   > I get the same error.  Then I've read that there are hard-masked   
   > packages and I should look in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask.  But   
   > GCC 4.3 in not listed there, so it's not hard-masked.   
   >   
   > Now?  How to emerge GCC 4.3?  The docs aren't of any help here, unless   
   > there's something I don't see.   
      
   I have/had a lot of problems with 4.3.0. It wouldn't even compile a kernel   
   without patching it first.   
      
      
      
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