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FAQ: gcc-2.95.2 interoperability


I bet the question about the C++ header files of gcc-2.95.2 will be a
recurring one. Can you please add it to the FAQ?

Btw, I would be pleased if you could put up the patches at the
sources.redhat.com web site and refer to that, instead of the URLs
below.

Bruno


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  Please read also the NEWS file which is the authoritative source for this
  and gives more details for some topics.
  
+ ??	When compiling C++ programs, I get a compilation error in streambuf.h.
+ 
+ {BH} You are using g++ 2.95.2? After upgrading to glibc 2.2, you need to
+ apply a patch to the include files in /usr/include/g++, because the fpos_t
+ type has changed in glibc 2.2. The patch is at
+ http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/gccinclude-glibc-2.2-compat.diff
+ 
+ ??	When recompiling GCC, I get compilation errors in libio.
+ 
+ {BH} You are trying to recompile gcc 2.95.2? After upgrading to glibc 2.2,
+ you need to apply a patch to the gcc sources, because the fpos_t type and
+ a few libio internals have changed in glibc 2.2. The patch is at
+ http://clisp.cons.org/~haible/gcc-glibc-2.2-compat.diff
  
  ??	The makefiles want to do a CVS commit.
  
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  {HJ} H.J. Lu, <hjl@gnu.org>
  {CG} Cristian Gafton, <gafton@redhat.com>
  {AO} Alexandre Oliva, <oliva@lsd.ic.unicamp.br>
+ {BH} Bruno Haible, <haible@clisp.cons.org>
  
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