[plug] gcc 2.96

[Adam Ashley]

its included in the distro as kgcc, if you install kernel development

and 2.96 works fine

Adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: wdk at Ralph.Localdomain [mailto:wdk at Ralph.Localdomain]On Behalf Of
> Bill Kenworthy
> Sent: Wednesday, 25 April 2001 11:27 AM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: [plug] gcc 2.96
> 
> 
> Hi,
> can someone point me to a document I can reference as to why Redhat (and
> now Mandrake) have gone to gcc 2.96?  Some developers are up in arms
> about it as its a developement base and now gnu seem to have washed
> their hands of it!, and without some sence of where they are going with
> this I have little argument to convince people that they need to upgrade
> their systems as RH 6.2 addons like kde etc are getting a bit stone
> aged.  Has anyone successfully built gcc 2.95 on a RH7.0 (or7.1) system
> without compatibility problems between glibc versions and the compilers
> and tools involved?
> 
> BillK
>