Thanks for your response!

After my OP, I pulled the coat of Parrot hacker Coke to it. We discussed it a bit on #parrot and he advised me to first (do no harm) and try running Parrot's Configure.pl script with some shell variables re-set. Incorporating an earlier suggestion from Parrot hacker particle, this is what I came up with: 

#!/bin/sh
CC="/usr/bin/gcc-3.3"
CX="/usr/bin/g++-3.3"
/usr/local/bin/perl Configure.pl --cc="$CC" --cxx="$CX" --link="$CX" -
+-ld="$CX" --without-icu --without-gmp $@

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... which kinda does what gcc_select would do. This script resulted in a Parrot configuration which you can see here.

make ran without a hitch! And make test (probably as a result of yesterday's on-line Parrot Bug Day) ran with only 1 failing test -- down from 62 the last time I tried that a couple of weeks ago.

Jim Keenan

In reply to Re^2: Safe reversion to older version of C compiler by jkeenan1
in thread Safe reversion to older version of C compiler by jkeenan1

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