On 09/10/2010 07:55 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:10:56 -0700 > JD wrote: > >> If you build it from gnu tarball, then you will not get the >> fixes that go into it from the community before it is used >> in a distro. But then, it might give the op what s/he wants. > > Of course the odds are good that the source is using > features not supported on the ancient gcc in fc4, so > you might need to build several historical versions > to bootstrap up to the latest gcc :-). gcc is written in Standard C so that it can bootstrap on many systems. It'll be fine. Andrew. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines