Re: gcc3.0 i386 developer machine?

[Colin Walters <walters@cis.ohio-state.edu>]

Stefan Alfredsson <stefan@alfredsson.org> writes:

> I could of course upgrade my own machine, but I fear the library
> incompatibities on produced packages and would rather stick to the
> old compiler for the time being.

Another option, assuming you have some disk space, is to make a sid or
woody chroot.  It's not too hard; just install the "debootstrap"
package from woody/sid (you might have to rebuild it on potato), then
something like

mkdir /usr/local/woody && debootstrap woody /usr/local/woody http://http.us.debian.org/debian && chroot /usr/local/woody /bin/bash && apt-get install build-essential gcc-3.0 biew 

should do the trick.