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Re: OpenOffice and imagined compiler conflicts



On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:55:33PM -0600, Todd Pytel wrote:
> You can have multiple versions of gcc on the system with no problems at
> all. Plain old "gcc" will always refer to 2.95, and nothing will get
> confused. If you want to use a newer gcc, like 3.0, you'll run "gcc-3.0"
> instead. So everything is kept nice and clean.

On woody and sarge, at least.  In sid 'gcc' is gcc 3.2, so pulling 'gcc'
from sid WILL change this, and possibly break any C++ programs you
compile in the future (since all the C++ libraries on your machine will
be built with gcc 2.95, still).

-- 
Rob Weir <rweir@ertius.org>				http://ertius.org/

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