Keith Antoine wrote: > On Thursday 25 October 2001 07:54 pm, you sent an epistle: > > >>Gee, they've almost caught up with what I've been enjoying on gentoo >>for months now. <grin> >> >>Just kidding, SuSE, Mandrake, etc. have superb installation packages >>and have much else to recommend themselves. >> > > Well I am now very much pingged off with Mandrake 8.1 and cannot wait for > Suse. The reason being that I was unaware that Mandrake was still running > that %%^$^&&* gcc-2.96 of redhat fame. I was trying to compile some mpeg 3 > multimedia downloads and Mplayer when it told me that it was not going to > compile against 2.96.................... So what I need is binaries for > either 2.95 or 3.0x, but some reports of 3 are not good either. I cannot find > any bins for this around has anyone seen them, can I use them off the Caldera > cd or whatever ?? > >
An interesting point of view on the "broken" 2.96 compiler of RedHat: http://www.bero.org/gcc296.html I have a RedHat server here at work with 2.96 installed and have yet to really exercise it any, other than to update it to 2.96-85. It was used to compile Samba 2.2.0 with no real issues. But I have no real experience with it. FWIW, Tim _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
