newbie question

[Stagner, Robert]

Hello,

i'm running RedHat 7.0 and would like to install gcc 2.95.2.  however, since
i have never installed gcc from source before, and as mr. alexandre oliva
mentioned on this forum not so long ago (Jan 18, 2001): 

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On Jan 18, 2001, "Roland Schwarz" <roland.schwarz@chello.at> wrote:

> After struggeling araound for a while, I learned that the newest glibc 2.2
> cannot be used with gcc 2.95.2 due
> to an incompatibility in indsteam, filepos, streampos.

There are patches in the GCC platform-specific installation notes that
correct this compatibility issue.

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Alexandre Oliva

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how does one apply the patch to gcc ?  i've downloaded both the source for
gcc and the patch file from the gcc web-site, but the patch file is simply a
text file with references to code.

any assistance would be appreciated.