Upgrading RedHat GCC 2.96

[Manfred Hollstein]

Dr Richard Charlewood wrote:
> Now that was SPEEDY!! :)
> 
> Thanks for your advice - I think I'll try the 3.01 rpm now and 
> upgrade to 3.1 as soon as its ready. I'm trying to get a scanner 
> going and three weeks feels like forever!

Like others have stated already, it'll take probably around 2
months before gcc-3.1 will be fully supported by the various
distributors - please note, this is *my* opinion and not that
of my employer. Why don't you go to e.g.

   <http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/rh7-errata-general.html>

to find out, what updates have been released for your particular
system? Or go to an appropriate FTP mirror of ftp.redhat.com
and download

   - cpp-2.96-85.i386.rpm
   - gcc-2.96-85.i386.rpm
   - gcc-c++-2.96-85.i386.rpm
   - gcc-objc-2.96-85.i386.rpm
   - sane-1.0.3-2.1.i386.rpm
   - sane-devel-1.0.3-2.1.i386.rpm

You can even get a glibc-2.2.4. Of course, if want to tweak it
yourself, you can also download the corresponding .src.rpm files.

HTH, cheers.

l8er
manfred


> 
> Thanks again!
> Richard
> 
> On 26 Mar 2002, at 11:53, Paolo Carlini wrote:
> 
>>Dr Richard Charlewood wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi Paolo
>>>
>>>Thanks for the speedy reply!  I liked your suggstion of using 
>>>RH7.2's gcc - I'm currently running RH7.0.  But while I was looking
>>>for the more recent RH2.96, I noticed that RedHat have got an rpm for
>>>gcc3.01 - is there any reason you can think of that it would not work
>>>on an updated RH7.0 sysytem?
>>>
>>
>>No, there is'nt.
>>However, in that case, please look out for an *.rpm of the most recent
>>gcc3.0.x, that is 3.0.4, which has many nasty bugs less. Also, be
>>"warned" that in only about three weeks from now gcc3.1 will be out,
>>fully supported by many vendors, AFAICT.
>>
>>Ciao, Paolo.
> 
> 


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