Re: Patching gcc

[Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu>]

gibson james <jgibso1@umbc.edu> writes:
> I installed Debian 1.3 then patched gcc with the diff from the Gnu ftp
> site. Now when I run 'gcc -v' gcc shows the version as 2.7.2.2 (as
> expected). But when I try to install lic6-deV, dpkg returns an error to
> the effect that I need gcc 2.7.2.2 or higher, and only have 2.7.2.1
> installed.

You didn't tell dpkg that you had gcc 2.7.2.2 installed.  It doesn't
know.  You need to install the gcc package from hamm, which is version
2.7.2.3.
-- 
Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu> <blp@gnu.org> <pfaffben@debian.org>


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