[ale] Secrets to coimpiling on RH7.2

[Jim Philips]

The issues go beyond compiling a kernel. I first ran into it when trying
to compile a C++ program called efax-gtk. I e-mailed the developer and
he told me that he and many other C++ developers had not yet found a
good way to work with gcc 3.0. He said that people compiling KDE
programs would run into the same problems, since KDE is largely done in
C++.


On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 09:41, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Note:
> 
> If you install gcc-3.0x from the RedHat 7.2 rpms, it will install it as
> gcc3. You have to install gcc-2.96 to be able to compile kernels. It's
> not as if gcc3 is broken for kernel compiles. It's more that kernel code
> uses too many older macros and deprecated code for gcc3 to finish. It
> will be a loooong time before the kernel is gcc3 compatible.
> 
> On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 09:21, Jim Philips wrote:
> > RH 7.2 also gives you a choice of installing gcc 2.96 or gcc 3.0. Which
> > did you install? If you installed 3.0, you can have major problems
> > compiling C++ programs. I eventually gave up on 3.0 and went back to
> > 2.96 to avoid these issues.
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 07:50, Chris Fowler wrote:
> > > If I download a source RPM from RedHat's site I would assume I would be able to compile it.  I download a RH7.2 source rpm and the compile fails.  Why bother than?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
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