G++ 3.4 is not installable from the intrepid repo

[Ali Nadalizadeh]

Binary package hint: g++-3.4

I just wanted to install g++-3.4 as always in my fresh 8.10
install and it said
g++ is refered to another package or is obsolete

gcc-3.4 could be installed without any problem, but g++ part is
missing.

g++-3.4 is really needed for backward compatibility since
many programs still don't compile with new brands like 4.2 & 4.3

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

please update your code or use g++-4.1 or g++-4.2. g++-3.4 won't appear anymore.

[Ivan (ivan-dovica)]

That's cool. So I have to install older ubuntu version, or there is other way how to get g++-3.4 (or 3.3) for intrepid?

[Ali Nadalizadeh (nadalizadeh)]

As a workaround I downloaded these files from http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gcc-3.4/
and installed them using "dpkg -i *.deb" command.

cpp-3.4_3.4.6-1ubuntu2_i386.deb
gcc-3.4_3.4.6-1ubuntu2_i386.deb
libstdc++6-dev_3.4.6-1ubuntu2_i386.deb
g++-3.4_3.4.6-1ubuntu2_i386.deb
gcc-3.4-base_3.4.6-1ubuntu2_i386.deb

But they should know that many unmaintained/stopped gnu projects only compile using
old versions of g++ and we don't have time to port them.

[Jonathan Rogers (jonner)]

Why is the gcc-3.4 binary package still available in Intrepid and Jaunty, but not g++-3.4? I don't think the situation is cool and leaving out g++-3.4 seems arbitrary at best.

[Atanas Atanasov (thenasko)]

I am just trying to compile a piece of old software (surf/surfex) and ran into the same trouble. The repository has gcc-3.4 but not g++. It would definitely be appropriate to have both old compilers available. One more vote to restore g++-3.4 in repositories (at least non-official).

[xoddam (jonathan-xoddam)]

Ditto -- need to compile an older release of ACE, the packages exist but are not installable with APT, why on earth?

[mic (michal-dobroczynski)]

I am in a situation where I can fix my code, but I can't fix others code, because the library comes as binary and was compiled using g++3.x.
The same applies to older projects that won't compile with g++4.x. And _why_ gcc3.x is still available? This partial availability has no logical explanation...

[Martin Zaun (martin-zaun-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Need g++-3.4 to check for compilability / compatibility of C++ code -- the compiler versions do make a difference. Poor decision in my view not to carry forward g++-3.4.