El Sun, 25 Mar 2012 19:37:40 -0700 Dave Close <dave@xxxxxxxxxxx> escribió: > I asked: > >How is it possible that Fedora 16 includes package > >compat-gcc-32-3.2.3-debuginfo.i686.rpm but does not appear to include > >the underlying compat-gcc-32-3.2.3.i686.rpm? To what does the > >debuginfo package pertain (it says, "This package provides debug > >information for package compat-gcc-32.")? Should I be looking > >somewhere other than the Fedora repositories to find it? > > Jakub Jelinek answered: > >compat-gcc-32 is the name of the src.rpm, compat-libstdc++* is the > >package it generates. > > Ok, thanks. But I still don't see the value of debug information for a > package that doesn't exist. > > F16 includes debuginfo packages for compat-gcc-34 and compat-gcc-296 > as well as compat-gcc-32. But it actually includes a compat-gcc-34 > package, just not the other two. > > With gcc, compat-gcc-32-debuginfo, and libstdc++-33 installed, there > must be some trick to actually making use of version 3.2 of gcc. But > when I try "gcc -V 3.2", I'm told, "gcc: error: 3.2: No such file or > directory" and "gcc: error: unrecognized option '-V'". What's the > trick to making use of this facility? Or is there no value to having > the compat packages? Is there a page somewhere that describes how to > use these compatibility packages? it provides compatability libraries, but not a 3.2 version of gcc. its just used to run old programs. Dennis -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
