Ulrich Windl wrote: > On 9 Mar 2006 at 13:32, J Sloan wrote: > > [...] >> Many vendors e.g. oracle require apps to be rebuilt or relinked in place, and >> the build fails due to compiler changes - so telling the poor DBA to "FIX >> YOUR >> ERRORS" is most unhelpful I'm afraid - so this is an unacceptable answer for >> most real world scenarios. > > ...when using a version of Oracle that is officially supported on that > platform?
Suse 10? That's not so surprising, after all, I know of people running oracle on fedora, of all things - but that's beside the point, oracle is just one example. The fact is, there are many cases where a new compiler breaks things, and where "fixing the code" isn't a practical option. An optional legacy code friendly compiler is needed - I believe a previous poster in this thread ended up installing solaris to build a required app, since it couldn't be built with gcc 4. There are other legacy apps I know of that can't be built with gcc 4. I suppose we have the option, as was mentioned here, of simply building an older gcc for our own use - but it would nice nice if the vendor would do that sort of thing. Isn't that why we buy the boxed set every 6 months? Joe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
