Re: FC4 good new tech, bad legacy support

From: Rahul Sundaram (sundaram_at_redhat.com)
Date: 06/30/05

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    Julius Smith wrote:

    >On 6/30/05, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@redhat.com> wrote:
    >
    >
    >>If the software doesnt work with either gcc 3.2 or gcc 4.x then its
    >>probably broken. GCC 4.x is there as the primary compiler. compat-gcc-32
    >>for legacy support. I am not sure what else could be done better here.
    >>any ideas?
    >>
    >>
    >
    >This has been working very well for me. However, it took me a while
    >to figure out that I needed
    >
    >yum install compat-gcc-32
    >./configure --cc=gcc32
    >
    >It would have been nice to have this info in the FC4 release notes
    >near then end of the section "6.3.1. GCC Compiler Collection", or
    >perhaps in the "Caveats" subsection.
    >
    >Julius
    >
    >
    >
    great idea. Kindly file it against fedora-docs and we will have a
    release notes errata

    regards
    Rahul 

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