Re: [Cooker] Reasons FOR Mandrake...

[Giuseppe Ghibo']

Ed Wilts wrote:
> 
> On Friday 06 April 2001 15:56, Alan Olsen wrote:
> > Another reason to use Mandrake is that programs actually compile under it.
> > (I have been more than a bit frustrated with the odd collection of things
> > that will not compile correctly on Redhat 7.0.)
> >
> > Mandrake does not tend to use experimental versions of GCC or GLIBC.
> 
> But that's the plan for Mandrake 8.0 - gcc 2.9x *is* an experiemental version
> of gcc.  A darn good compiler, but experimental nonetheless.

If you find a program not compiling with gcc 2.96 you
can use egcs. It was packaged so that it can be installed TOGETHER
with gcc. Just use 'kgcc' or 'gcc -V`egcs-version` instead of gcc.

Bye.
Giuseppe.