FC4 good new tech, bad legacy support

[Rahul Sundaram]

Julius Smith wrote:

>On 6/30/05, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at redhat.com> wrote:
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>>If the software doesnt work with either gcc 3.2 or gcc 4.x then its
>>probably broken. GCC 4.x is there as the primary compiler. compat-gcc-32
>>for legacy support. I am not sure what else could be done better here.
>>any ideas?
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>This has  been working very well for me.  However, it took me a while
>to figure out that I needed
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>yum install compat-gcc-32
>./configure --cc=gcc32
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>It would have been nice to have this info in the FC4 release notes
>near then end of the section "6.3.1. GCC Compiler Collection", or
>perhaps in the "Caveats" subsection.
>
>Julius
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great idea. Kindly file it against fedora-docs and we will have a 
release notes errata

regards
Rahul