Solidity can't find contract name since 4.9, gets <stdin> instead

[GitDoggo]

I have Solc 4.6 on my machine and everything works. When I call compiledContract = web3.eth.compile.solidity(sourceCode);, the first attribute of compiledContract is my contract name:

{
  SampleContract: {
    code: "...",
   info: {...},
   ...
  }
}

But on another machine that has 4.9, compiledContract looks like this:

{
  <stdin>:SampleContract: {
    code: "...",
    info: {...},
    ...
   }
 }

And I cannot compiledContract.<stdin>:SampleContrat of course, in Geth I get invalid token argument. Why did <stdin> appear?

What could cause that? How do I revert to 4.6 manually? (With command line)

[chriseth]

Sorry for the hassle, this change was needed to allow unambiguous contract names for larger projects. You can access the contract using compiledContract['<stdin>:SampleContract'] but I would recommend not to use eth_compile at all and instead use solc.js directly.

[GitDoggo]

Thanks for replying. I'm not familiar with solc.js, can it be used in Geth?

[chriseth]

No, it can be used directly from javascript, please see https://github.com/ethereum/solc-js and don't hesitate to ask in http://gitter.im/ethereum/solidity

[chriseth]

Closing due to inactivity.