"mm" == Martin Alonso Soto Jacome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
mm> On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Marcelo Magallon wrote: >> The problem is I *NEED* GCC 2.7.x... I can fetch the source code from the >> debian unstable source tree, but I'd really like to compile it as a >> package in order to be able to install it using dpkg, so dpkg will know >> GCC is installed, so it won't barf about dependencies et al. mm> I have right the same problem. It seems to me that some of us, still mm> using 0.93 for stability reasons but needing recent packages like gcc mm> 2.7.x or tcl 7.4/tk 4.0, could try to build and publish a.out based mm> versions of them, just to make easier the transition between 0.93 and 1.1. mm> Unfortunately I don't know the exact method to do that (compile a package mm> configured for elf to generate a.out) out from the source code, but I've mm> heard it is possible. Some feedback on the subject would be really useful mm> as a starting point. I might be interested in trying this if it is not impossible. Is it? A lot happened between libc4 and libc5. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- My ability to compile my own compiler on my own computer is to my freedom of programming what my ability to speak to whomsoever is willing to listen to me is to my freedom of speech.
