Shibboleth Developers

["RL 'Bob' Morgan" <>]

On Fri, 4 Oct 2002, Scott Cantor wrote:

> > > Provided you have gcc 3.x
> >
> > Today's stupid question is:  what's the best way to put gcc
> > 3.x on a RedHat 7.3 system?  Move to 8.0?  Download source
> > and compile?  Other?
>
> My suggestion is to go straight to gcc 3.2 now, since it's building
> successfully there. The Rawhide RPMs (see rpmfind.net) will overwrite
> gcc/g++ on a 7.2/7.3 box, and you can install the new libstdc++
> alongside the old one.
>
> It does take a lot of package fiddling to get all the pieces, though.

Um, um, um.  If installation of gcc 3.x is non-trivial on the typical
Linux installations people will be using, it seems like this at least has
to be covered by the deployment guide.  Or are we telling pilots we only
support their running the statically-linked binaries we provide for them?

 - RL "Bob"


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