Re: Mixing Cygnus & Gnat compilers on the same machine

[dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner)]

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Scott Ingram <scott@silver.jhuapl.edu> wrote:
> For example it is relatively easy to have two or more versions of
> gcc in the same tree.  (Examine the "-V" option.)  

I don't think that feature has ever worked very well for non-C
languages, and I think they've deprecated it even for C. Letting
arbitrary versions of the frontend call arbitrary versions of the
internal programs was causing problems with the wrong options being
set and the wrong libraries being linked.

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