>From: Erick Lorenz (address@hidden) <address@hidden> >Organization: UC Davis >Keywords: 199909172327.RAA00921 McIDAS-X Linux Erick, >Thanks for your answer. I had done most of those things when I was >building under 6.0 and thought I had it covered. OK. By the way, even though I have not yet updated my online Addenda page, I made a bugfix addenda available on Sept. 14 that enables McIDAS-X to be built on RedHat 6.0. >I have one more bit of confusion however. You wrote: > >>To use gcc/f2c, one must: >> >> use a version of gcc greater than or equal to 2.7.3 >> use a version of f2c released on or after August 1997 >> use the static f2c library, libf2c.a, when linking > >I checked the GNU FTP site and found now such version as 2.7.3. A partial >list of their releases: >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >gcc-2.7.2.2.tar.gz 6966 Kb Mon Feb 10 00:00:00 1997 Unix Tape Archive >gcc-2.7.2.3.tar.gz 6933 Kb Wed Aug 20 00:00:00 1997 Unix Tape Archive >gcc-2.7.2.tar.gz 6923 Kb Wed Nov 29 00:00:00 1995 Unix Tape Archive >gcc-2.8.0.tar.gz 8279 Kb Wed Jan 14 00:00:00 1998 Unix Tape Archive >gcc-2.8.0.tar.gz 8279 Kb Wed Jan 14 00:00:00 1998 Unix Tape Archive >gcc-2.8.1.tar.gz 8249 Kb Wed Mar 04 00:00:00 1998 Unix Tape Archive >gcc-2.95.1.tar.gz 12571 Kb Mon Aug 16 13:53:00 1999 Unix Tape Archive >gcc-2.95.tar.gz 12562 Kb Fri Jul 30 02:40:00 1999 Unix Tape Archive >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >shows a jump from 2.7.2.3 (which came with our Linux release) to 2.8.0. The reason I used 2.7.3 as a benchmark was that I found that at least one version previous to this had a bug that caused McIDAS builds to fail. I assume that any release after 2.7.3 would be OK. >My resident Linux gruru also maintains that 7.2.3.2 is the last of >of the 7.x series. Perhaps I am wrong. Maybe it was 2.7.2.3. I'll check to make sure. >I am hoping that 2.7.2.3 is what the documentation really means but if not >how far down the list can I safely go in selecting a new gcc to install? I would always go for the latest release _unless_ the release notes for the release had some show stoppers. I have used 2.8.0 and 2.8.1 on Solaris x86, so if you want to be sure, you should use that one. >Thanks Talk to you later... Tom
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