Upgrade from 5.2.1-RELEASE to 5.3-STABLE

[Lowell Gilbert]

Piotr Gnyp <toread at discordia.pl> writes:

> On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 05:02:01PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> > Only the ones that are written in C++.
> > But it's probably easier to rebuild everything than to figure out
> > which ones include some C++ sources.
> 
> Hmm the page mentions it when upgradimg from 4.x:
> 
> "3 New Features:
> [...]
> GCC: The compiler toolchain is now based on GCC 3.4.X, rather than GCC
> 2.95.X.
> [...]
> 4 Notable Changes
> [...]
> Due to the upgraded GCC compiler, C++ programs generally need to be
> recompiled and reinstalled. This requirement comes from changes in the C++
> ABI."
> 
> So - again - is the change from 3.3.3 to 3.4.x so great, that all of the
> ports that were writren in c++ need to be rebuild?

Yes.