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From: Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] succeed emerge gcc-4.5.3-r1 on CentOS 4.9 (glibc-2.3.4)
Date: Sat, 05 Nov 2011 18:19:17
Message-Id: CAMxqorWr4EgUoZ-h7c3qgCwF9fga+gVAwFqDBJAdZK903Rf4zw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-alt] succeed emerge gcc-4.5.3-r1 on CentOS 4.9 (glibc-2.3.4) by heroxbd@gmail.com
1 On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 10:38 AM, <heroxbd@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Hey guys and gals,
3 >
4 > I was hesitating to try gcc-4.5.3 on a CentOS 4.9 with stone aged
5 > glibc-2.3 when I am bootstrapping it. In the past my experience with a
6 > couple of old machines is that >=gcc-4.3 never emerge with <=glibc-2.5
7 > without USE vanilla.
8 >
9 > A thread discussed this too[1]. It was a failure of CentOS 5, which
10 > makes CentOS 4 more scaring.
11 >
12 > To my surprise, gcc-4.5.3 USE 'fortran mudflap nls nptl openmp' worked!
13
14 It isn't really a surprise to me. I've NEVER had gcc problems on RHEL4
15 (glibc-2.3.4 or so). But there are reports of problems with RHEL5.
16 Gotta love linux, huh? =P
17
18 > Maybe we can make a prefix gcc / glibc version compatibility matrix to
19 > track these reports :)
20 >
21 > Yours,
22 > Benda
23 >
24 > 1. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.alt/6110/focus=6119

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