On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Russell Cattelan wrote:
> Hmm why is a big problem?
Because people will use gcc 2.96 instead of kgcc? ;-)
>
> RH also shipping compat-egcs aka kgcc.
> Which is what we are currently building with.
>
> Steve has a kernel running using RH 2.96 compiler, (with a few code tweaks)
> So this will be fixed in the future, but we have to be careful to work with
> other versions of the compiler as many people will not be using RH's version
> of gcc to compile.
Yep, saw Steve's message. I haven't had very many problems with 2.96
myself (compiled X, KDE 2.1.1, the kernel and modules, glibc) and the
system is stable. Have heard of a few mishaps though, so...
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Regards,
Juha
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