On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 14:00:02 +1200 Jaco Swart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is it save to upgrade to gcc 3.2 on a RH7.3 box ? > > I have unsuccessfully tried to install Epson's Iscan some time back. Neither the > Iscan (for gcc > 1.96) rpm or source would work. At the time, I thought it was being stubborn because > I had > upgraded gcc to 2.0.3 and the kernel to 2.4.20. > > So now I want to try Iscan for gcc 2.3.x. Synaptic didn't know anything about gcc > 2.3, it > wanted to install the latest gcc 1.96. I typed "apt-get update gcc-2.3.3" from the > console (can't > remember exactly, but close enough). Apt is happy with this, but also wants to > download and > update some 200 other programs (I suspect the ones that rely on gcc?). The whole > download > of more than 200MB would take about 12 hours. > > What am I to do? Will it be safe to do the relatively massive update? (I don't mind > to) Or am I > going to wreck the system if I do? > > <OT> Chris is quite right about xsane not being on top of scanning. It is okay for > colour > prints, colour slide film and b&w negatives, but useless for colour negatives. > Thinking back, I > should have thought about that before I made my comment last week that he could > possibly > use xsane rather than iscan - sorry Chris. And here I am, in his shoes! Poetic > justice :-) > </OT> > I can only comment that the iscan source for gcc 3.x version of iscan compile perfectly on gcc 3.2.3 (gentoo). I have no use for it, just tried to help out Chris W. sorry i cannot help you with the upgradability of rh7.3 to gcc 3.x. However I do know that there can be problems trying to load modules built with gcc3.x if your kernel is built with gcc 2.x someone worked out a recent workshop meeting how to tell what version of gcc your kernel is built with, but i cannot remember how we did it. i jjust tried strings /boot/bzImage |grep gcc with no luck.. bunxip2 /boot/bzImage|strings gives /boot/bzImage is not a bzip2 file. > rgds > > Jaco > > -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch, NZ Ph +64 3 3798966 Fax + 64 3 3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
