Re: gcc 3.2 and gcc 2.95

["Jeffrey L. Taylor" <jeff@austinblues.dyndns.org>]

Quoting Fluberman <fluberman72@wanadoo.nl>:

> I don't know whether my question is off-topic in this mailing list,
> so forgive me first.
> 

It's on topic.

> I want to develop a code using some numerical routines provided by other guys. 
> The problem is when I tried to compile the code, those routines required 
> gcc-2.95, while in my Debian I have gcc-3.2. It seems that the backward 
> compatibility (correct me if I'm wrong, I'm a novice in this area) does not 
> work.
>

You probably have both installed (run "locate gcc-2.95" to check).
gcc is a symlink to gcc-3.2 (or gcc-2.95).
 
> I am wondering if I can also install gcc-2.95, side by side with gcc-3.2, 
> without any problems. 
> Or do I have to remove gcc-3.2, before installing gcc-2.95. What will be the 
> worst things to happen for this case?
>

You probably can't remove just one.  Make sure gcc is a symlink ("ls
-l /usr/bin/gcc").  Then switch it, "ln -sf /usr/bin/gcc-2.95
/usr/bin/gcc".
 
> 
> Flubie
> 

HTH,
  Jeffrey