[openbeos] Re: Getting started

On Friday 22 August 2003 10:12 pm, you wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Aug 2003 21:23:44 -0400 EDT "Jared Eldredge" <jared@xxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > David
> > i believe that gcc 2.95.3 is the right compiler.  OBOS uses JAM for its
> > build system and you should probably have some software for that as
> > well.
>
> No,
>
> Please do not use gcc 2.95.3.  It seems you are looking at an older version
> of BeOS MAX since they have (AFAIK) corrected this oversight in the
> current version.  Use either the gcc included in R5 (from 1999) or the
> geekgadgets gcc. (from 2000, version 2.9-beos-000224)  If they still have
> not fixed the BeOS MAX "distro" then you can still install it and install
> one of the working compilers over it.  (or just switch to the other
> compiler if it turns out to be bundled with it as well)

They actually provide a choice between 2.95.3 and the version from R5.  I 
forget which is the default.

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