Re: gcc3.2 upgrade

* Vakvarju <[email protected]> [020925 14:27]:
> Hi
> 
> Did anybody succesfuly upgraded SuSE 7.1's gcc 2.96 to the new gcc 3.2? If
> so could you post the necessary steps to do? I am hesitating to downgrade
> 7.1 to 7.0 to have correct gcc 2.95-2 instead of the buggy 2.96.

This is heavily discouraged! The gcc 2.96 from SuSE 7.1 AXP has about
200 bugfixes to known bugs and is _far_ more stable on the Alpha
platform than any gcc 2.95 ever was. With 2.95.x it is not possible to
compile KDE2/3 and a lot of other software.

gcc 3.2 is pretty ok, but it has trouble if you use TImode on Alpha.
If you want to use gcc 3.2, you should take care to keep the old 
libstdc++, as the new version of this library is not compatible.
I suggest installing the complete toolchain from
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/suse/people/aj/Current_Toolchain/axp/

  Stefan

-- 
The x86 isn't all that complex - it just doesn't make a lot of
sense.          -- Mike Johnson, Leader of 80x86 Design at AMD
	                          Microprocessor Report (1994)