On Thursday 01 May 2008, Gavin Seddon wrote:
> > as per your original post. I recommend you upgrade gcc to version
> > 4.1.2
>
> thanks,
> However I need gcc 3~ for some critical software.  If I change to 4
> 'it' won't recompile.  I suppose I could alternate profiles as
> required.

I had that with qemu. It reduced me to tears...

Lucky for skype I think it will be easier as you don't build skype:

emerge gcc-4.something
set gcc-3 to the system compiler
make sure gcc-3 libs are earlier in LD_LIBRARY_PATH than gcc-4
run skype with
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1 skype

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