RHEL4 10.10 tar.gz comes compiled with wrong gcc version

[Steinar Bang]

If I go to http://www.opera.com/browser/download/ ending up on the
download page for linux (because I do this from a linux opera) and:
- select RedHat in "Select distribution and vendor
- then select "RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.x"
- In "Choose package format" select tar.gz
I get a package named opera-10.10.gcc4-shared-qt3.i386.tar.gz

However, the gcc on RHEL reports:
gcc version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-9)
and presumably the qt-3.3.3-13.RHEL4 shared lib installed on the system
is compiled by that.

And trying to use gcc3 qt so files in an opera compiled with gcc4 didn't
work on FC8, so I'm assuming the same goes here (I haven't tried this
version, though...).

I know I can browse to the correct version (which would either be
gcc3-qt3 or a statically linked version), but the download page should
select the correct version.

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Steinar Bang <s...@dod.no>:

> And trying to use gcc3 qt so files in an opera compiled with gcc4 didn't
> work on FC8, so I'm assuming the same goes here (I haven't tried this
> version, though...).

I didn't want to break my only browser on these machines to try.

But I can confirm that opera-10.10.gcc3-shared-qt3.i386.tar.gz installs
and works without issues on RHEL4.

[Ruari Ødegaard]

Any distro with at least gcc3.4.* will actually work with the gcc4 builds.
That is because the key change of files we depend on actually changed at
gcc3.4.*, not gcc4.

http://my.opera.com/ruario/blog/2009/09/28/which-version#gcc3-4

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[Ruari Ødegaard]

Why are you using the tarball and not the rpm, which would make
uninstalling less of an issue if you have concerns?

[Steinar Bang]

>>>>> Ruari �degaard <do....@spam.me.invalid>:

> Why are you using the tarball and not the rpm, which would make
> uninstalling less of an issue if you have concerns?

Because I don't have sysadm privileges on these machines.