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Re: g++ 2.96 on debian?



On 25-Jun-2002 Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 14:34:52 +0200
> "J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" <dm@zensunni.demon.nl> wrote:
> 
> <snip, snip>
> 
>> 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.
> 
> but 3.1 is only in unstable! In testing it only goes till 3.0. How does
> compare 3.0 with 3.1?
> 

3.0 is reasonable, 3.1 just adds improvements in speed and architecture support.


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