Re: g++ 2.96 on debian?
On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 21:06:37 -0500, Arun Madhurmohan wrote:
> I use debian linux at home and redhat linux (unfortunately) at work.
> Redhat comes with g++ 2.96
That isn't a formal gcc release; see http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html .
(There are dissenting opinions as to its usefulness though, like
http://www.bero.org/gcc296.html)
> and that's what I use at work.
You have my sympathy.
> I can't find an equivalent version of g++ on debian.
That's because Debian tries to stick as closely as is reasonably possible to
official gcc releases. "2.96" (of which there appear to be many versions
which are difficult to distinguish) has a lot of issues; it has e.g. been
known to build gnumeric binaries which produced extremely inaccurate
results; gnumeric's CVS version (and some other software as well AFAIK) has
been changed to refuse compilation with "2.96".
Your best option is to go for 3.1.
HTH,
Ray
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