Re: Using older compiler (was Re: next Beta)

[Wojtek Pilorz <wpilorz bdk pl>]

On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, E Nigma wrote:

> Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 05:45:58 +0800
> From: E Nigma <enigma os2 ami com au>
> Reply-To: enigma-list redhat com
> To: enigma-list redhat com
> Subject: Re: Using older compiler (was Re: next Beta)
> 
> On Friday 30 November 2001 23:00, you wrote:
> > >
> > >?I have one such case at hand. Since you've mentioned it, could you tell
> > >?me (or point to some docs) how to compile something using the good ol'
> > >?egcs from compat-egcs package? Because the app in question compiles
> > >?without trouble on RH6.2, but not on 7.x. And it is a multilanguage
> > >?app, i.e. it has code in Fortran, C and C++. I know, it's horrible. :-)
> > 
> > Actually, I can't. ?My legacy app currently requires the official gcc
> > 2.95.3, which never appeared in any of the RH releases. ?I installed that
> > compiler and libs from the tarballs and I muck with path variables to get
> > it to run in place of the RH gcc when I build my app. ?And I link
> > statically.
> 
> With user-mode-linux you can run a full build environment for any number of 
> Linux distroes at once. See user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net.
> 
This can be also done with chroot as well and using standard kernel (I
believe user mode linux requires some patches to the kernel).

Best regards,

Wojtek