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On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 16:43 -0400, Don Levey wrote: > Based upon info in the latest (May) issue of Linux Journal, I thought I'd > finally get off my butt and experiment with QEMU. The idea of having a > virtual platform is appealing for all sorts of reasons (testing, living > dangerously, etc), but I don't want to pay for VMware. Anyway, my machine > (Fedora Core 4) has gcc 4 installed, but QEMU will only compile with 3.x. > I'm not able to install a 3.4 RPM without untangling dependency hell, and > don't know enough to know if compiling from 3.4 source will mess any of > these things up. > > I know that I could fire up a virtual machine, amke sure I've got 3.4 > installed there, and go forward, but in order to do that I need to get the > virtual machine installed... > > Any suggestions? Installing gcc v3.x on FC4 is *very* easy. Just run: yum install compat-gcc-32 compat-gcc-32-c++ and then use the /usr/bin/gcc32 executable instead of gcc. Ed -- Edward H. Hill III, PhD office: MIT Dept. of EAPS; Rm 54-1424; 77 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 emails: eh3 at mit.edu ed at eh3.com URLs: http://web.mit.edu/eh3/ http://eh3.com/ phone: 617-253-0098 fax: 617-253-4464
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