Brad Felmey wrote: > Is this correct? I thought one of the ideas behind source was to > eliminate dependencies like this. Not wanting that screwed-up bastard > stepchild known as gcc3 on my box in the first place is why I need to > build from source. Now I find it's a build requirement? >
OpenOffice builds with gcc 2.95.x or gcc>=3.0.3 under unix, nothing else. If you have the time to port 400MB of c++ to compile with gcc 2.96, I guess you can avoid gcc3. The OpenOffice people thought it better to just support gcc3. Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x202 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/gpg.key
