From: Warren Young Date: August 25 2004 6:30pm Subject: Re: the patch file problems List-Archive: http://lists.mysql.com/plusplus/3415 Message-Id: <412CDAD2.2090509@etr-usa.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Rubén Meré wrote: > and i type zcat omnibus-gcc-3.3.patch.gz |patch -p0 You don't need that patch. It's only for those who insist on using version 1.7.9 and also need GCC 3.x support. The RPM was all you needed. You're ready to go. I would still encourage you to download the source tarball, though, to get the example programs.