Help Needed

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Mon, 3 May 2004, [iso-8859-1] Anish Mathew wrote:

>  --- "Sriramkrishna B C, Noida"
> <sriramkrishnac at noida.hcltech.com> wrote: > Hi,
> >
> > Please clarify whether i can install gcc2.95 on
> > Redhat Linux 8. How to
> > downgrade gcc 3.2 to gcc 2.95 .
> >
>
> i think it is not possible...
> bcz several application/modules depends on the default
> vesion...
> i have tried many times but in vain..
>
> but in theory.. if we can downgrade the dependencies
> too .. there is some hope.
> Anish

*Do not* downgrade system-installed compilers and libraries!

To get Red Hat's 2.96 compilers, install the compat-gcc* RPMs.  To get
the original 2.95.3 compiler, grab the tarballs from gcc.gnu.org and
build from scratch.  If you do the latter, then be sure to do static
linking.


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		Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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