On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, T. Ribbrock wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 01:15:01PM -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> [...]
> > If you must have 2.95.3 (or any version of the compiler that doesn't come
> > as an RPM *designed to live peacefully with the stock comiler*), the best
> > strategy is to grab the tarballs from gcc.gnu.org and install them in
> > /usr/local.
> [...]
>
> Hm... I wonder how difficult it would be to use the "compat" SRPMs
> (aka 2.96) and 'port' them to 2.95.x, using a similar file structure.
> That way, you'd get RPMs for 2.95.x.
I thought of that back with 7.3, but I bailed in the end. It shouldn't be
too hard for someone good with RPM to do, though gcc is a pretty hefty
piece of software to build and lots of bits get installed.
>
> Cheerio,
>
> Thomas
>
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