upgrade gcc on fedora core 4

Andrew Haley aph at redhat.com
Sat Sep 11 08:33:07 UTC 2010


On 09/10/2010 07:55 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:10:56 -0700
> JD wrote:
> 
>> If you build it from gnu tarball, then you will not get the
>> fixes that go into it from the community before it is used
>> in a distro. But then, it might give the op what s/he wants.
> 
> Of course the odds are good that the source is using
> features not supported on the ancient gcc in fc4, so
> you might need to build several historical versions
> to bootstrap up to the latest gcc :-).

gcc is written in Standard C so that it can bootstrap on many
systems.  It'll be fine.

Andrew.



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