On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, don fisher wrote:
When are the versions of gcc components included in the devel repository
added to the standard distribution. The current version of gfortran (4.1.2)
is quite broken. I tried to upgrade from the devel repository, but that
failed due to missing dependencies. I think that once the gcc was updated,
almost everything else that links to the library was included by yum.
"quite broken" is vague. RedHat does backport fixes -- did you
report the problem to BugZilla?
Unless your boss says you can only use stuff packaged for Fedora you
have a number of options:
1. you can install a newer version from OpenPkg.org (they list 4.2, 4.3,
and 4.4 versions, with 4.2.3 as "core" and 4.3.0 as "evaluation"). I have
been using gcc-g++ 4.2.3 in F8.
2. you can install a commercial compiler (Intel and/or Sun)
3. you can build a new compiler from sources. It is generally not that
hard to build a new minor version of gcc et al using your current
compiler. Major version changes are not as simple, as they require
upgrades to libraries and other tools (binutils). See:
<http://gcc.gnu.org/install/prerequisites.html> (Last modified 2008-04-04)
for current details.
Is there a path to request such an upgrade?
The release notes provide a link:
<http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugsAndFeatureRequests>
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George N. White III <aa056@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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