Which version of GCC to use: an example

[Frank Schafer]

On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 08:46, Bob Gustafson wrote:
> My goal was to compile and install prcs-1.3.1  (a new source code
> control system)
> 
> I started out with gcc version 2.96 which is the stock version supplied
> with RedHat 7.2 (for i686-pc-linux-gnu)

There never was a 2.96 release of GCC. This branch was only for 
development. If RedHead ships broken compilers with it's release,
RedHead users have to live with this -- haven't they ;-) ?

> I thought it might be a problem with the compiler, so I downloaded and
> installed gcc-3.0.3 and reconfigured and compiled prcs
> (files expanded fresh from tar.gz).

Me too took gcc-3.0.3 last week, to set it up as a secondary compiler
but I don't have much luck with it. To say the thruth - I havent much
time just now for such an experiment.

> Finally, I installed gcc version 2.95.3  (2.95.3 20010315 (release)) and
> this worked fine.

I've already built whole systems with this version. If you have
glibc-2.2.x you'll need the gcc-2.95.3-2.patch.
 
> I don't know if there are bugs in the compiler(s) or bugs in prcs-1.3.1,
> but this might be a regression test to pass for the newer compilers.

The task for you to find out.

> PCRS can be obtained at  http://sourceforge.net/projects/prcs
> 

BTW: What's so wrong with CVS?

Regards
Frank