On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 02:11:27AM +0100, Nils Philippsen wrote: > 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 "$@" > else > # Wrap gcc so that it uses version 2.96 of the libgcc library to link > # Oracle binaries > exec /usr/bin/gcc.bin -B /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96 -static-libgcc "$@" -B argument should be / terminated, i.e. -B /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/ Jakub
