gcc for fedora

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 08:35:58AM -0600, Root, Dalene Joy wrote:
> Forgive me if I sound naive. I am not a programmer. The reason that we
> wanted to use gcc 3.4.3-9 on Fedora is because some of our developers
> are using Fedora Core 3 and some have purchased Redhat ES4. RHES4 has
> gcc-3.4.3-9 while Fedora 3 has 3.4.3-22. There seems to be an
> incompatibility between the two versions. Here is an excerpt of the
> original complaint. 
> We have a serious problem with incompatible versions gcc.
> It turns out that the versions of gcc that get installed with Fedora 
> Core 2, Fedora Core 3 and RedHat ES4 are different.
> There are instances where compile errors that do not get produced with
> one version will be produced on another.
> In particular this becomes evident in forward namespace, forward class
> and friend class declarations.

Are you sure that the problems aren't just with FC2's gcc-3.3.x vs FC3 and
RHEL4's 3.4.x? Note that Fedora Core 3 started with gcc-3.4.2-6.fc3, but
was updated to the current bugfix level. I suggest reading the changelog for
the latest gcc package for FC3 -- the differences between the RHEL4 release
and the latest FC3 version appears to be a large number of bugfixes.



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