Hi Brian,
I've spent tens of thousands of hours sitting behind a black-n-white
80x24 screen untarring files and wishing I knew all the details.
PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME GO BACK THERE. SRPMS are nice; like someone leaving a reel-type lawn mower for a
Yes I don't disagree with you there Brian. I myself much prefer RPMS and only resort to tarballs when necessary. I think RPMS are great for installing and keeping systems running smoothly.
I don't need however, some pompous person telling me that for "_serious_ software building" that SRPMS are a magic bullet and tars are "highly unreliable". That is complete Bulls**t!
I'm a developer and system administrator by profession myself so I understand computer systems and software quite well thank you very much Jean.
Anyway the original post was how to compile under a previous gcc release which I answered instead of telling the poster to go load something else instead.
Anyway enough noise now, let's all go back to being happy little Fedora users :)
Enjoy! Rejoice in the power of RPMS!
Where available :)