[TriLUG] gcc switch hitting
Chris Knowles
knowlesc at telocity.com
Sun Sep 29 08:39:08 EDT 2002
Tanner... thanks for the reply
I had already tried setting the CC variable. No joy.
Dunno what courier doesn't like about 3.2, but the install page says,
"Courier-Imap does not compile under gcc 3.0"
CJK
On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 23:38, Tanner Lovelace wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 13:43, Chris Knowles wrote:
> > Thanks for the advice. I had tried both of these suggestions, and even
> > tried making the link for gcc point to gcc-2.96, none of which worked.
> > So I found an RPM that did work, and am now getting my e-mail using
> > courier.
> >
> > Thanks again for the help.
> >
> > CJK
>
> Chris,
>
> For future reference, you can modify the rpm spec file so that
> where it calls configure, you prefix that call with something like
>
> CC=gcc-2.96 configure [...]
>
> And it will set the compiler to that version of gcc instead of the
> default gcc.
>
> Just out of curiosity, what about gcc3 is it that Courier doesn't
> like? Is it because gcc3 is much more picky about the C and C++
> standard and Courier still has non-standard code (which, if so,
> they really should fix..., but that's beside the point), or is
> it something else?
>
> I did notice today, however, that the gcc 3.2 compiler is much
> faster than previous versions, even faster than 3.0.4 which is
> what I've been using a lot lately. I'm looking forward to trying
> it out some more... :-)
>
> Tanner
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