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

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