rawhide report: 20050309 changes

[Jakub Jelinek]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 02:11:27AM +0100, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 17:11 -0500, Marc Deslauriers wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 11:56 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > > Ralf Ertzinger (fedora-devel at camperquake.de) said: 
> > > > > New package compat-gcc-296
> > > > > 	2.96-RH compatibility libraries
> > > > 
> > > > What need that?
> > > 
> > > It's mainly just for shipping libstdc++ from that version.
> > 
> > Doesn't Oracle need 2.96 too?
> 
> Having its libgcc and libstdc++ is sufficient if you use a wrapper like
> this (where /usr/bin/gcc.bin is the original gcc since Oracle's scripts
> apparently can't use anything else than /usr/bin/gcc):
> 
> --- 8< ---
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> if type -path gcc296 >&/dev/null; then
>     # RHEL3
>     exec gcc296 "$@"
> else
>     # Wrap gcc so that it uses version 2.96 of the libgcc library to link
>     # Oracle binaries
>     exec /usr/bin/gcc.bin -B /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96 -static-libgcc "$@"

-B argument should be / terminated, i.e. -B /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/

	Jakub