I am using the BLFS svn on top of the LFS svn. One inconsistency is that LFS uses GCC 4.6.0 and BLFS uses 4.5.1. I think this may be the cause of this issue.

Firefox 3.6.17 (the latest 3.6 version) gives me the following error when being built with GCC 4.6.0

/sources/mozilla-1.9.2/xpcom/glue/nsEnumeratorUtils.cpp:115:27: error: uninitiliazed const 'EmptyEnumeratorImpl::kInstance' [-fpermissive]

Q1 Is there any way round this?
Q2 If I install GCC 4.5.1 over my existing 4.6.0 will I have further problems especially as I now have many packages built with 4.6.0.

I am very new to Linux so be patient please.

Thanks.

Hi,
I'm not sure if your perception is correct. Your system uses gcc 4.6.0, which you installed during LFS. BLFS gives you the choice to install gcc 4.5.1 and/or gcc 3.3.6, but they are installed in another location and if they are installed gcc 4.6.0 is still your default compiler.

To use a different gcc version then the default use something like this: export CC=/opt/gcc-4.5.1/bin

Hope this helps.

Does that cover all the compilers in GCC, c, c++, fortran etc?

Hi,
Assuming they where build/installed: Yes it does.

Have another look at this BLFS chapter: GCC-3.3.6, especially the Command Explanations / Configuration information parts.

Thanks - I'll give this a go.

Installed gcc 4.5.2 and build of Firefox (actually xulrunner) went a lot further, then failed due to missing header rdfutil.h.

Marking this as solved and will raise a new issue if I can't work this out.