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" * When compiling source that has not yet been upgraded to gcc-4.0 compatibility, the earlier 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 - Hide quoted text - regards Rahul -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
This is essentially a duplicate of Bug 162217 (a couple of typos were fixed in this version). I apologize for the accidental double posting.
reassigning to release notes tracker
*** Bug 162217 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
If we do this, should we include also compat-lib{gcc,stdc++}-296? This provides (IIRC) compatibility for Red Hat Linux 7.3 apps.
For that, how about a new section of the release notes entitled "Backward Compatibility", organized in reverse-chronological order? In that case, the "Caveats" subsection of Section 6.3.1 could simply point to the beginning that section. I would probably insert it as a new Section 7.
Please don't forget about CXX variable. Some code does not also compile with g++ from gcc-c++-4.0.0 package (for example tvtime â http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1230713&group_id=64301&atid=506987).
Added to CVS. Close this one.
Updated content a bit and included this in a recent publishing of the online release notes: http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc4/errata/
The information above seems to be misleading. The errata does not include a section on backward compatibility. If an errata for this purpose is deemed to be unimportant, We should make this a point for the subsequent versions