Re: egcs (New GCC)
On 16 Aug 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
> Vincent Renardias <vincent@waw.com> writes:
>
> > one more is probably not a problem, as long as it Provides:, Conflicts:
> > with the other packages correctly.
>
> It would be really nice if we could have gcc and egcc installed
> concurrently. Then it would be easy to check suspected problems in
> each compiler's behavior against the other. It would also make gcc an
> easy fallback for cases that egcc doesn't initially handle well.
I'm not sure this is a good thing. Different gcc versions can co-exist,
when one is set up as native compiler, and the others as cross-compilers;
but I'm not sure it's possible to have 2 native gcc on the same machine
without horrible kludges. What do the other think?
Cordialement,
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