Re: 3.2 transition

[Martin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>]

> Well, how did other distribution manage this situation? Anyone tracking their
> changes and willing to make an overview?

For SuSE 8.1, you just get libraries compiled with gcc 3.2. There is a number
of packages that has been dropped, a few of them because they fail to build with
gcc 3.2, see

http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/why-not-81.html

If you had you own libraries built with gcc 2.95 which now fail due to the upgrade,
tough luck, just rebuild them. They don't even include gcc 2.95 anymore.

> My best ideas was: create a wrapper for LD_LIBRARY_PATH hackery, call it
> oldcompat-c++, provide compatibility packages for all old libs, where the
> files are stored elsewhere.

I'd advise against providing binary packages for all old libraries. This is free
software, just recompile it.

There might be a few special cases (e.g. if the software is not free), but those
should be exceptions rather than the rule.

Regards,
Martin