Justin Pryzby wrote: > I have a package (x11iraf) which conflicts with gcc-3.3. For the whole > story see below.. > > gcc includes /usr/bin/gcc which is pretty much a necessity, I think. > I need xmkmf to work too. For now I have Build-Depends: gcc-3.2, but > what can I do to force it to actually compile with that, instead of > gcc-3.3?
If the package's build system uses $(CC) as the compiler, then you can set CC="gcc-3.2" in debian/rules. If "gcc" is hard-coded in the upstream makefile, then I would patch it to use $(CC) instead.
