I've got gcc 4, but I need gcc 3...

[lug at the-leveys.us (Don Levey)]

discuss-bounces at blu.org wrote:
> 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, make 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

Well, that was *far* too easy - thanks!
The QEMU package is building now.
 -Don