G++ an multiple architectures (solved)

[Ed Hill]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:04:36 -0500 Matthew Gillen <me at mattgillen.net>
wrote:
> 
> It's certainly possible to bypass package management.  It's just more
> work and more headaches in the long run.


Agreed !!!

End-runs around package management can cause all sorts of problems that
are difficult diagnose, reproduce, document, etc.  Every one of these
sloppy quick fixes potentially ruins your ability to, at a later date,
get functional updates from rpm, yum, up2date, etc.

In the case of the Portland Group compiler that I mentioned earlier
in this thread it was relatively easy to create a local "compat" RPM
package that provided all of the contents of the directory:

    /usr/lib/gcc/i386-redhat-linux/4.1.0

that was removed by the update to 4.1.1.  In fact, such additional
"compat" RPMs are exactly what vendors such as Red Hat do when they
ship things like:

  compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-56.fc5

If you run "rpm -qa | grep compat" then you might find a number of
these sorts of packages already installed on your system(s).

Ed

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Edward H. Hill III, PhD  |  ed at eh3.com  |  http://eh3.com/
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