Description of problem:
Many tarballs from the Web do not compile because gcc 4.0 is so new (and strict).

I suggest adding the following info to the FC4 release notes in the "Caveats"
subsection of section "6.3.1. GCC Compiler Collection", or

* When compiling source that has not yet been upgraded to gcc-4.0 compatibility,
the early gcc-3.2 compiler can be used.  It can be installed via

yum install compat-gcc-32

and many makefiles can be invoked with "CC=gcc32" to use it.  Also, many
INSTALLs can be configured to use it as follows:

./configure --cc=gcc32

Additional info:

From: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram>
Reply-To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list>
To: jos.edu, For users of Fedora Core releases
<fedora-list>
Date: Jun 30, 2005 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: FC4 good new tech, bad legacy support

Julius Smith wrote:

>On 6/30/05, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram> wrote:
>
>
>>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?
>>
>>
>
>This has  been working very well for me.  However, it took me a while
>to figure out that I needed
>
>yum install compat-gcc-32
>./configure --cc=gcc32
>
>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
>
>
>
great idea. Kindly file it against fedora-docs and we will have a
release notes errata
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regards
Rahul

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