Re: gcc 3.2 and gcc 2.95
Thanks. Problem is solved.
On Tuesday 20 May 2003 22:21, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> 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
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