On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 17:11 -0500, Marc Deslauriers wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 11:56 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > Ralf Ertzinger (fedora-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > > New package compat-gcc-296 > > > > 2.96-RH compatibility libraries > > > > > > What need that? > > > > It's mainly just for shipping libstdc++ from that version. > > Doesn't Oracle need 2.96 too? Having its libgcc and libstdc++ is sufficient if you use a wrapper like this (where /usr/bin/gcc.bin is the original gcc since Oracle's scripts apparently can't use anything else than /usr/bin/gcc): --- 8< --- #!/bin/bash if type -path gcc296 >&/dev/null; then # RHEL3 exec gcc296 "$@" else # Wrap gcc so that it uses version 2.96 of the libgcc library to link # Oracle binaries exec /usr/bin/gcc.bin -B /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96 - static-libgcc "$@" fi --- >8 --- Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Red Hat / nphilipp@xxxxxxxxxx "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759 PGP fingerprint: C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F 656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011