A friend of mine was helping me with this and noticed that I was running
the Fedora version of Eclipse (which is apparently quite buggy). He gave
me new versions of the jdk, I downloaded a copy of eclipse from their
website and it all works now.
Thanks for all your advice on not running two versions of gcc though.
I'll keep that in mind.
Joelle
Peter Flynn wrote:
> Joelle Tegwen wrote:
>> I just recently migrated to Linux and I'm still figuring out some of
>> the basics. Please go easy on me.
>> I'm running yum 2.6.1 on Fedora Core 5
>> I have gcc 4.1 installed on my machine and one of my software
>> packages requires gcc 3.5. How do I get yum to download that specific
>> version?
>
> I'll second what Patrick said ("the Linux part of the problem is also
> nasty").
>
> You really don't want to do this unless you *really* know what
> you are doing with Unix and compilers.
>
> Keeping multiple parallel copies of something as key as gcc needs
> some extremely careful planning and maintenance, and a lot of
> underlying knowledge. If you've got it, go ahead. If not, stop.
>
>> Then how do I get that particular software to use that particular
>> version of gcc?
>
> A package that *requires* gcc 3.5 is probably going out of date
> rapidly by now. Ask the author to upgrade it. Or scrounge an old
> PC from somewhere and install FC9 or something on it, and keep
> it for compiling.
>
> ///Peter
>
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