Hi,

>> There were also other oddities about the "gcc43 preview" build, e.g.
>> difficulties building boost, that caused the LHC experiments to reject it
>> in favor of our own build(s) of the stock gcc43x. (Subsequent to that decision
>> the "preview" switched to gcc4.4...)
>>      
> Funny you should say this!  I'm trying to get gcc43 installed just so I
> can match what is on the nodes on our RACF farm which are heavily
> influenced by ATLAS's needs.  However, I see that the stock
> gcc43-4.3.2-7.el5 packages installed.  FWIW, we also rely on Boost and
> I've built it (v1.38) with gcc43 and didn't see any problems.
>    

We found that gcc 4.3 from TUV failed to compile Boost 1.39
on i386. It compiled fine on x86_64.

                     hth, cheers, Jan