On Saturday 22 January 2005 18:11, James Wilkinson wrote: > Steven Pasternak wrote: > > Is it possible to install an old gcc and use it like the package > > 'compat-gcc' does? For example, I want gcc 3.4 for the things I compile > > for me, but RPMs I build for ancient systems I want to be built with gcc > > 2.7.x. Is it possible to like install 3.4 in /usr and 2.7 in /usr/gcc or > > something like that? If so, how exactly? Thanks! > > Erm ... "ancient" is right. We're talking RHL 5.x and similar here? > > Thing is, compatibility is not simply a matter of which compiler you > use. To begin with, I don't think Fedora rpm will build a package that > the rpm on those systems will recognise. I suspect you're going to be > updating a *lot* of basic files to get this to work. > > Wouldn't it be easier to install a suitably old version of Red Hat > Linux, and produce the RPMs there? > > James. > > -- > James Wilkinson | ... in our completely unscientific usability study, > Exeter Devon UK | it took our subjects less than 10 seconds to locate > E-mail address: james | the Solitaire game. We're not sure what else the > @westexe.demon.co.uk | corporate desktop needs. -- Michael Hall, > Serverwatch I was just using 2.7 as an example because it was the first thing to come to mind. I just want to produce rpms that will work on my fedora system and my friend's suse system. I'm not talking about complex RPMs either, nothing like X. I just want to make something that doesn't gripe because I don't have libsdc++ 3.4, but something more general that works on systems just a few years old, maybe around 1 1/2 to 2 years.
