For those of us who are not skilled at installing gcc, could you tell us
the easiest way to install 2.95, without running into unforeseen
problems with libraries, paths, etc? Should we download an RPM?
Norm Matloff
On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 11:39:19AM +0200, Andre Juffer wrote:
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> Wai-Sun Chia wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> > Just downloaded the latest lyx-1.1.6pre3 and tried to compile it on my
> > RH7 system. This is updated frequently from Rawhide. Specifically this
> > system is running:
> >
> > gcc-2.96-69
> > glibc-2.2-9
> > binutils-2.10.1.0.2-1
> > libsigc++-1.0.1-1
>
>
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> gcc-2.96 is a development version of gcc and should not be used for real
> work. It is very strange that RH has decided to install this version of
> gcc. I think it is better to uninstall gcc-2.96 and install 2.95
> instead, which is the latest stable version of gcc. It also may solve
> your problem. We had exactly similar problems with RH. In fact, we could
> not compile anything, even the simplest programs. After installing an
> earlier version of gcc, all our problems disappeared.
>
