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[Bill Nottingham]

Per Bjornsson (perbj at stanford.edu) said: 
> Wait... care to explain what the problem is? As far as I can tell,
> compat-gcc contains GCC 3.3.<recent> and gcc contains GCC 4. There
> shouldn't be any need to ship both GCC 3.4 and 4.0 for ABI reasons; they
> are supposed to be compatible, and thus libstdc++ will keep the same
> major soversion.

It's compatible for C and C++. Not so for Fortran and JAva.

> (I guess that the reason for shipping compat-gcc at all
> is to be able to provide a complete LSB environment? Or is anything in
> the distro actually built with the compat toolchain?)

OpenOffice *may* be. It doesn't build with gcc4, as I recall.

Bill