[Bug c++/36576] gcc 4.3.1 doesn't build for me on openSUSE 10.3

["karx11erx at hotmail dot com" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

------- Comment #6 from karx11erx at hotmail dot com  2008-06-20 11:00 -------
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #3)
> > Update your system.  Report this bug to OpenSUSE.
> > 
> > *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 35257 ***
> > 
> 
> I have been searching around a little and found that the gjar used by openSUSE
> 10.3 belongs to a classpath package that is coming from gnu.org
> (http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/). Seems pretty daft to me to claim this
> would be a bug I'd have to report to SUSE.
> 

(In reply to comment #3)
> Update your system.  Report this bug to OpenSUSE.
> 
> *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 35257 ***
> 

Now this is great: I have found the latest classpath source, but: I have no
clue where to have install put the stuff in - though that doesn't matter,
because the install procedure needs several libraries in newer versions than I
have installed on my system, and which do not seem to be available from SUSE.
So I can either try to collect all that stuff from somewhere from the internet
and install it manually, hoping it doesn't break my system, spending hours and
hours of additional work with dubious prospect of success, or wait for SUSE to
release gcc 4.3. All that because some not so smart people chose classpath over
Sun's java libs for the sake of it being free, although it is not yet available
in a version that indicates it would be stable, and that is at least
1.something. And all that is why? Because gcc 4.1 throws some errors on our
code that works flawlessly with MS compilers and gcc 3, and that absolutely do
not seem to be justified, and I wanted to make sure this problem  is either
fixed or still present in the latest gcc release in order to avoid remarks like
"update to the latest compiler version". I would so love to use Linux, but as
soon as you leave the beaten path of common distros and are not an expert of
sorts, you are completely lost with this operating "system" (I miss the
"system" in this stuff). When will you Linux geeks learn to get your act
together, if you ever want to offer a true alternative to Windows? 


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