Re: Older version of GCC needed in CentOS 5.1

[Mustafa Akgul <akgul at bilkent dot edu dot tr>]

Ian Lance Taylor yazm?s,:
> Car54 <planetwealth@gmail.com> writes:
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> > I am in the process of installing CentOS 5.1. The gcc that came with it is...
> > gcc-4.1.2-14.el5.i386.rpm. My problem is I have software that ran in RHEL-3
> > perfect and the version of gcc that was used was... gcc-3.2.3-47.i386.rpm. I
> > received errors with the newer version that came with CentOS 5.1.
> >     
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> Newer versions of gcc are more strict with regard to language
> standards, particularly when writing in C++.
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> > I'm quite new to this and I'm unsure what to do. If i need to install the
> > gcc-3.2.3-47 version I'm not sure how to do this and if I can have both
> > versions on the server?
> >     
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> You can download gcc 3.2 from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/ and build it
> yourself.  I don't know if the package from the older version of
> CentOS would run on the newer version.  You'd have to ask somebody who
> works with CentOS.
>
>   
I have compiled gcc-3.2.3 on centos 4.x easily. Erlier version sof 3.2 
did not compile. I also managed to compile libgc-2.3.
Of course under a different prefix.

Regards
Mustafa Akgul

> You could also consider fixing your code to be more standards
> conformant.
>
> Ian
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