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Re: add gcc / g++ 2.96 to Fedora core 6
- From: Brian Dessent <brian at dessent dot net>
- To: PoWah Wong <wong_powah at yahoo dot ca>
- Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 07:36:00 -0700
- Subject: Re: add gcc / g++ 2.96 to Fedora core 6
- References: <493643.69736.qm@web56312.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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PoWah Wong wrote:
> However, I looked at the gcc download sites and do not find gcc 2.96.
That's because the FSF never released such a version.
<http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html>
> I find only gcc-g++-2.95.3.tar.gz and gcc-g++-3.0.tar.gz.
If you want binary compatibility with the compiler supplied in old
Redhat distributions, you should compile that very same compiler from
the SRPMs of that distro. Redhat shipped a heavily patched/forked gcc
during that timeframe, and it's unlikely that something you'd build from
a FSF release would be completely compatible.
Brian