From mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi  Thu Aug 26 08:09:25 2010
To: <mint@lists.fishpool.fi>
From: Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [MiNT] New RPMs to be uploaded shortly...
Reply-To: Peter Slegg <p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk>
X-Mailer: MyMAIL Rev:1.94.13761 (Atari/(STiK/STinG/GlueSTiK))
X-Hardware: Atari Milan
MIME-Version: 1.0
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:05:16 +0200 (GMT)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
Message-Id: <0002fe0a.01c27262b80c@smtp.freeola.net>
References: <Pine.GSO.4.63.1008251719001.19344@saltmine.radix.net>
In-Reply-To: Pine.GSO.4.63.1008251719001.19344@saltmine.radix.net
X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0
Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi
Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi
X-original-sender: p.slegg@scubadivers.co.uk
Precedence: bulk
List-help: <mailto:ecartis@lists.fishpool.fi?Subject=help>
List-unsubscribe: <mailto:mint-request@lists.fishpool.fi?Subject=unsubscribe>
List-Id: <mint.lists.fishpool.fi>
X-List-ID: <mint.lists.fishpool.fi>
List-subscribe: <mailto:mint-request@lists.fishpool.fi?Subject=subscribe>
List-owner: <mailto:tjhukkan@fishpool.fi>
List-post: <mailto:mint@lists.fishpool.fi>
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.sparemint.org id o7QC9JEY007617

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:22:07 -0400 (EDT), Keith Scroggins <kws@radix.net> wrote:
> Hello Peter,
>
> If you install the GCC 4.5.1 RPM, it will overwrite/upgrade, so that GCC
> 2.95.3 is now gone, at least the C/C++ pieces.
>
> The gcc2 packages will put the older GCC back in place with a slightly
> different name, requiring a user to specify it to use it.  This is one way
> other systems have multiple GCCs, there are some other ways of doing this,
> but with RPMs, I though this was the easiest.
>
> So, GCC 4.5.1 would be default, with the possibility og GCC 2.95.3 being
> secondary.
>
> Keith
>

Excellent, I don't build a great deal of stuff so I will give gcc4 a try.

Peter