[Distutils] GCC versions and binary egg names

[David Cournapeau]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Matthias Klose <doko at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 26.07.2010 19:04, Chris Withers wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> In addition to the UCS2/4 problems already described by MAL and which
>> I've bumped into myself, I now have a problem with binary linux eggs
>> where the GCC version doesn't match that of the system the egg is being
>> installed on.
>
> why would this be needed? Both the C ABI and C++ ABI didn't change for
> years, at least on the common ix86 architectures. There were corner cases on
> some architectures, but I doubt that anybody did build eggs for those.

The Fortran one did, and given that the OP seems interested in the
scientific python toolstack, that will cause headache. It certainly
has and (still does) caused a lot of headache for the scipy community
(and we do not distribute binaries for windows),

cheers,

David