5 Jan
2003
5 Jan
'03
12:34 a.m.
Levi Burton wrote:
Greetings,
I was curious what compiler versions people have had the best luck with.
I am currently using: gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.3 2.96-113)
I am considering upgrading via RPM to what appears to be 3.2
(gcc-3.2-7.i386.rpm). Good idea? Bad Idea?
Thanks!
Levi
I've been using gcc-3.2 on RH 8 and it seems to do a good job. However,
I would not
recommend upgrading just the compiler, especially if you're running RH
7.3. The reason
is that you won't be able to link against any C++ libraries compiled
with the old compiler.
(Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong on this.) So basically
you're looking at
upgrading your whole distro or recompiling all the C++ libraries from
source.
A major pain either way. This was, incidentally, the major reason why I
upgraded
to RH 8 from 7.3.
-dgm