On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 09:29:20PM -0200, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > :: staf wagemakers writes: > > > The latest gcc sersion 2.96 ( which is the default compiler on Red Hat 7 ) > > has > > a few bugs and isn't able to compile the Linux kernel. This version of gcc > > is > > only a pre-release therefor I wouldn't use this version at all... > > There was some flame war in linux-kernel and elsewhere I guess because > of that. It's not "pre-release". They actually picked a CVS snapshot > that was not binary-compatible with anything else, and with unknown > bugs, and packaged it. > > I'd call our version of gcc (2.95.3) a "prerelease", but not Red > Hat's "2.96". > > The gcc people had to publicaly announce that there has never been an > official 2.96 gcc version...
Ok, then I wouldn't never use Red Hat 7.0 :) regards, -- Staf Wagemakers email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] homepage : http://staf.digibel.org
