Per Bjornsson (perbj@xxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > Wait... care to explain what the problem is? As far as I can tell, > compat-gcc contains GCC 3.3.<recent> and gcc contains GCC 4. There > shouldn't be any need to ship both GCC 3.4 and 4.0 for ABI reasons; they > are supposed to be compatible, and thus libstdc++ will keep the same > major soversion. It's compatible for C and C++. Not so for Fortran and JAva. > (I guess that the reason for shipping compat-gcc at all > is to be able to provide a complete LSB environment? Or is anything in > the distro actually built with the compat toolchain?) OpenOffice *may* be. It doesn't build with gcc4, as I recall. Bill
