Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2020 at 3:13 PM From: "Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: "Bruce Dubbs" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Older GCC install On 5/16/20 6:39 AM, Cliff McDiarmid via blfs-support wrote: >> Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2020 at 12:11 AM >> From: "Don Cross via blfs-support" <[email protected]> >> To: "BLFS Support List" <[email protected]> >> Cc: "Don Cross" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Older GCC install > >> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 6:00 PM Cliff McDiarmid via blfs-support >> <[email protected][mailto:[email protected]]> >> wrote: > >> I need to install an older GCC to compile a particular piece of software. >> At present I'm using GCC 9.2(recent LFS). >> I've managed to compile 8.4 and it works, but I need 8.1. > >> As a long-time C programmer, I'm curious why you need an older C compiler. > > Okay thanks Don. I'm trying to compile Gnucash 3.10 which has not been a > problem in the past. The dependencies at present stress the use of GCC 8.0 > >> If I knew what problem gcc 8.4 is causing, maybe I could help get it >> working, so you don't need to compile 8.1. I'm willing to give it a shot if >> I had more details. > > I've compiled Gnucash 3.10 with GCC 8.1 abeit on another LFS(older).
>Copy the binary from the old system to the new one? Would be a lot >easier than trying to rebuild it. First thing I tried Bruce. Doesn't work. It's not finding libraries. Cliff -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
