Re: compat-gcc-32

I asked: >How is it possible that Fedora 16 includes package >compat-gcc-32-3.2.3-debuginfo.i686.rpm but does not appear to include >the underlying compat-gcc-32-3.2.3.i686.rpm? To what does the >debuginfo package pertain (it says, "This package provides debug >information for package compat-gcc-32.")? Should I be looking >somewhere other than the Fedora repositories to find it? Jakub Jelinek answered: >compat-gcc-32 is the name of the src.rpm, compat-libstdc++* is the >package it generates. Ok, thanks. But I still don't see the value of debug information for a package that doesn't exist. F16 includes debuginfo packages for compat-gcc-34 and compat-gcc-296 as well as compat-gcc-32. But it actually includes a compat-gcc-34 package, just not the other two. With gcc, compat-gcc-32-debuginfo, and libstdc++-33 installed, there must be some trick to actually making use of version 3.2 of gcc. But when I try "gcc -V 3.2", I'm told, "gcc: error: 3.2: No such file or directory" and "gcc: error: unrecognized option '-V'". What's the trick to making use of this facility? Or is there no value to having the compat packages? Is there a page somewhere that describes how to use these compatibility packages?