On 5/29/2015 2:23 PM, Jerry Geis wrote: > is there any issue with installing the compat-gcc34 package from > centos 6 on centos 7 ? probably won't work at all, as its dependencies are very likely to be all wrong. compat packages in RHEL/CentOS are designed to go back one major release. So, compat-gcc34 on EL6 was designed for EL5 compatibility. on EL7, there's a compat-gcc-44 to provide EL6 compatibility. I suggest you recompile whatever software depends on gcc 3.4 to run with el7's native gcc 4.8 -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz