[TriLUG] gcc switch hitting

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 13:43, Chris Knowles wrote:
> Thanks for the advice.  I had tried both of these suggestions, and even
> tried making the link for gcc point to gcc-2.96, none of which worked. 
> So I found an RPM that did work, and am now getting my e-mail using
> courier.
> 
> Thanks again for the help.
> 
> CJK

Chris,

For future reference, you can modify the rpm spec file so that
where it calls configure, you prefix that call with something like

CC=gcc-2.96 configure [...]

And it will set the compiler to that version of gcc instead of the
default gcc.

Just out of curiosity, what about gcc3 is it that Courier doesn't 
like?  Is it because gcc3 is much more picky about the C and C++
standard and Courier still has non-standard code (which, if so,
they really should fix..., but that's beside the point), or is
it something else?

I did notice today, however, that the gcc 3.2 compiler is much
faster than previous versions, even faster than 3.0.4 which is
what I've been using a lot lately. I'm looking forward to trying
it out some more... :-)

Tanner
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