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[Kyrre Ness Sjobak]

tor, 03.03.2005 kl. 23.13 skrev Per Bjornsson:
> On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 22:44 +0100, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> > After all, i probably should have seen that gcc4 now is gcc-4.0. But how
> > will gcc3 be shipped? gcc-compat (as usual? brings up the whole
> > so-version conflict... I think i shall let that rest in the sand.
> 
> Wait... care to explain what the problem is? As far as I can tell,
> compat-gcc contains GCC 3.3.<recent> and gcc contains GCC 4. There
> shouldn't be any need to ship both GCC 3.4 and 4.0 for ABI reasons; they
> are supposed to be compatible, and thus libstdc++ will keep the same
> major soversion. (I guess that the reason for shipping compat-gcc at all
> is to be able to provide a complete LSB environment? Or is anything in
> the distro actually built with the compat toolchain?)
> 
> /Per

It might not be a huge problem for gcc, but when you are dealing with
libs with more than 2 so-versions installed, it might.