On Saturday 26 January 2002 02:10 pm, you wrote: > I notice from the list of RPMs that the 8.2 beta 1 release has gcc-2.9.6 > gcc3.0 and egcs-1.1.2. > > In addition to making the distribution larger, I would think that > distributing multiple compilers complicates support issues. > > Are there packages in the Mandrake distribution which can not compile > with gcc 3.0? Are there any packages in the Mandrake distribution which > still require egcs to compile?
Recompiling any C++ package [Qt, kde] with g++3 would break binary compatibility, so I doubt Mandrake would find that acceptable for non-major release.
