On Friday 11 August 2006 07:57, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 06:11:23PM +0530, Rahul wrote: > > buildsys@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > >New package compat-gcc-34 > > > Compatibility GNU Compiler Collection > > > > Why is this needed in Fedora Core? > > 1) GCC 3.4.6 is the last one to ship with G77, while Gfortran is quite far > even in the Fortran77 compatibility, it is not yet there and some people > have huge Fortran77 codebases, not to mention that Gfortran runtime > is in any case ABI incompatible with G77 runtime > 2) similarly, not all third party C++ sources are ready for GCC 4.1.x, so > a secondary compiler is often handy until they manage to rewrite it > 3) in the end, all that changed from previous amount of binary packages > is the addition of one new src.rpm - as many compat-gcc-32 subpackages > were nuked at the same time as the number of added compat-gcc-34 > subpackages > > Jakub And none of those reasons stop any of the compat-gcc packages being in extras. IMHO they all should move to extras. gcc should be in core compat-gcc-* should be in extras. Unless there is something in core that requires the older gcc Dennis -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
