On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 10:38:55AM +0300, James Black wrote:
> I found out that many packages can't compile with gcc v4. Since Fedora 4
> will be released soon it might be a good idea for compatibility reasons
> to also include the gcc v3. It also would be nice if Fedora includes a
> scrift to switch temporally from gcc v4 to gcc v3 something like
> gcc_choose or something... I know for compatibility reasons you have
> include the gcc32 but it's a 32 bit not a 64 bit compiler.
> The issue affect multimedia software like Xvid, Mplayer etc.
> I would apreciate your answer
gcc32 is a compatibility GCC 3.2.x compiler, not some unspecified
32-bit compiler. So on 64-bit arches, it is 64-bit/32-bit depending
on -m{64,32,31} as the primary compiler.
Still, it would be far better to fix the applications that don't built
with GCC 4 in time for FC4. In most cases it is caused by application bugs
rather than GCC bugs.
Jakub