[Mplayer-users] Using older GCC on recent distros

[Steve Stavropoulos]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Aaron Newsome wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Tomi Ollila wrote:
> > First, go to http://www.rpmfind.net, search for `gcc' and install the
> > latest gcc 2.96 you find from the page for your distribution: like
> > gcc-2.96-85.i386.rpm for RH 7.0 or 7.1...
> >
> > (you may need to upgrade some other packages too).
> >
> > Try  ./configure --disable-gcc-checking, and then compile the whole
> > beast.
>
> Well I tried that and I started down the path of attempt installation of
> package, download more packages to satisfy dependencies, repeat, repeat
> again, repeat some more. I eventually got down to this:
>
> [root at sierra Linux]# rpm -Uhv gcc-2.96-97.i386.rpm
> binutils-2.11.90.0.8-7.i386 .rpm cpp-2.96-97.i386.rpm
> error: failed dependencies:
> libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.3)   is needed by binutils-2.11.90.0.8-7
> gcc = 2.96-0.48mdk is needed by gcc-c++-2.96-0.48mdk
> egcs is needed by kernel-source-2.4.3-20mdk

Upgrade your glibc. It isn't a very big deal, it's just a minor upgrade
for glibc. I have done it, you can do it!
 And you must upgrade your old compiler (2.96) too.

>
> now it looks like it wants to upgrade glibc which spells trouble. I have
> another reply that says just download and compile gcc-3.0,.. so now I'm
> trying that.
>

 Don't! I smell a lot more trouble with this solution!


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