Re: [e-users] proper way to compile eina using gcc 3.3.6

[Chris W. <dha...@gm...>]

2008/11/10 Michael Jennings <e-...@ka...>:
> On Monday, 10 November 2008, at 08:28:21 (-0500),
> Chris Wright wrote:
>
>> And that version of GCC is pretty out of date; is there any reason
>> you're using that rather than a more recent version?
>
> This is not true.  gcc 4 is actually quite new, in the grand scheme of
> compiler lifespan, and a lot of code does not compile with it.  It is
> perfectly reasonable for a particular distribution to stick with gcc
> 3.x for the time being, and eina should not require gcc 4 to build.

Okay, true, it's only three years old, and the language specifications
didn't change during that time.