John <j...@codemist.co.uk> wrote: > I do not know how it happened but on my jessie machine I seem to have > gcc4.9 as default (as shown by gcc --version) which is causing problems > with compiling/linking seeming to want gcc4.8. Attempts to remove > gcc4.9 seemed to want to remove gcc as well.
gcc-4.9 *is* the default compiler for Jessie, thus the gcc meta-package points to it. You explicitly needing gcc-4.8 for something is the odd thing here. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
