Wich gcc?

[José Monserrat Neto]

Dear Paul,

I've changed my computer to an Atlon 1.5 GHz and Linux version to RH 
8.0.  So I started again from the very beginning. I found in your site 
the latest Swarm version, which I want to install, and some good hints 
as follow below:

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"Paul Johnson Oct. 21, 2002

Swarm 2.1.141 is a version update reflecting changes I have made 
recently. If you want the source, it is in this directory. Eventually I 
expect to check it in to CVS.

Get blt and jikes from the RH7.3 distribution.

Get the hdf5 rpm I built.

The gcc-3.2 that is included in RH8.0 is not capable of building Swarm.

I used gcc-3.3-20020909 to build these. THe Swarm RPMS require only 3.2, 
which is distributed with RH8. I have tested these RPMS on a "clean" RH8 
system and they work fine along with the gcc that RH provides. I hope 
they will work for you with the gcc that RH distributes, but if they 
don't, you know the reason and in my misc software directory, I have the 
rpms for gcc-3.3 that I used. You could upgrade with those, but don't 
bother unless you see trouble. Again, I have installed these Swarm RPMS 
in an RH8 system with their gcc and I can compile/run Swarm programs."
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Could you help me to understand some points above?

1) Should I (or not) download gcc-3.3-20020909? I ask so because you say 
above that gcc-3.2 is not capable to build Swarm, but some lines below 
you say to try gcc-3.2 and to verify what happens... Have I 
misunderstood the point?  Moreover, I visited <http://rpmfind.net> and 
didn't find any gcc-3.3, only the gcc-3.2-7? Is this latest rpm 
different from the RH 8.0 distribuition?

2) If I should use the gcc-3.3 rpm, where is it?

3) I should download from your site the following rpms: (Is there any 
one else?)

blt-2.4u-7.i386.rpm <http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/%7Epauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.2x_RPMSforRH8.0/blt-2.4u-7.i386.rpm>     21-Oct-2002 16:00   2.2M  
hdf5-1.4.4-1RH80.i38..> <http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/%7Epauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.2x_RPMSforRH8.0/hdf5-1.4.4-1RH80.i386.rpm> 16-Oct-2002 11:14   790k  
swarm-2.1.141.200210..> <http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/%7Epauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.2x_RPMSforRH8.0/swarm-2.1.141.20021019-2RH8.0.i386.rpm> 21-Oct-2002 17:04   3.8M  
swarm-2.1.141.200210..> <http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/%7Epauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.2x_RPMSforRH8.0/swarm-2.1.141.20021019.tar.gz> 21-Oct-2002 07:47   3.0M  GZIP compressed docume>
swarm-static-2.1.141..> <http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/%7Epauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.2x_RPMSforRH8.0/swarm-static-2.1.141.20021019-2RH8.0.i386.rpm> 21-Oct-2002 17:04   6.3M  

4) What for this swarm-static-2.1.141..> 
<http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/%7Epauljohn/Swarm/Swarm-2.2x_RPMSforRH8.0/swarm-static-2.1.141.20021019-2RH8.0.i386.rpm> 
21-Oct-2002 17:04 6.3M rpm file?


Thanks beforehand for your attention.

Monserrat.






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