On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Daniel Callahan wrote:

> We have a quandary:  a box with RH 7.3 that needs to upgrade to gcc 3.2x
> Why?  gcc-2.96 produces buggy code when optimizing FORTRAN-77, and these
> programs are large enough that we need the extra speed.  We're hoping gcc
> 3.2x will fix this.  We've looked around, and there's no obvious gcc 3.2 rpm
> for 7.3  So, do we have to upgrade the whole OS to get the improved
> performance?

There are 3.1 RPMs for 7.3.  Otherwise, the best choices are (1) upgrade
the OS or (2) grab the tarball from gcc.gnu.org and install in
/usr/local/.  With appropriate definitions for $PATH and $LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
you can use it just fine in 7.3, as long as you do static linking.

-- 
                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs



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