[Dev] Switching to Ubuntu

Grant Baillie grant at osafoundation.org
Fri Feb 17 17:33:18 PST 2006


On Feb 17, 2006, at 13:18, Mike Taylor wrote:

> On Feb 17, 2006, at 3:57 PM, Heikki Toivonen wrote:
>
>> Heikki Toivonen wrote:
>>> I would like some other brave souls to do the switch and let me  
>>> know if
>>> you faced any problems. If all looks good, we should be able to  
>>> convert
>>> the Tinderboxes and QA lab next week.
>>
>> Well, seems we hit some roadblocks.
>>
>> Ubuntu Breezy Badger does not include gcj 3.4 which is required by
>> PyLucene to work properly (they have gcj 4.0 which is too flaky for
>> PyLucene - I tested).
>
> Ubuntu (breezy) does not by default include 3.4 but that doesn't  
> mean it's not available.

BTW, on Ubuntu, is there a standard way to switch between gcc  
versions if you've installed more than one? I can go in and futz with  
symlinks in /usr/bin, but I'm hoping there's something analogous to / 
usr/sbin/gcc_select on OSX.

--Grant




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