Can we have g++/libstdc 32 packages

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Thu Jul 31 14:49:09 UTC 2003


On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 04:45:43PM +0200, Milan Kerslager wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 05:10:45AM -0400, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 10:01:20AM +0100, Mike Martin wrote:
> > > previously, when RH has included a new compiler, compat packages have
> > > been included for previous version
> > 
> > But gcc 3.2.x is compatible with gcc 3.3.x (there are some corner cases
> > but I believe gcc 3.2.x would simply ICE on them rather than generating
> > ABI incompatible code with gcc 3.3.x).
> 
> So there is the last question: Do we need compat-libstdc++ from RH 9?

Depends if you need that compatibility or not.
compat-libstdc++ in Cambridge provides 2.96-RH, egcs 1.1.2 and some earlier
libstdc++'s. If you have something still compiled against them, you need
them, otherwise you don't.

	Jakub





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