FC4 good new tech, bad legacy support

Julius Smith julius.smith at gmail.com
Thu Jun 30 21:28:51 UTC 2005


On 6/30/05, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at redhat.com> wrote:
> great idea. Kindly file it against fedora-docs and we will have a
> release notes errata

Done --- Bug 162217

Thanks,
Julius

On 6/30/05, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at redhat.com> wrote:
> Julius Smith wrote:
> 
> >On 6/30/05, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at 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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