The Mandrake 8.0 GCC is not the same as the unstable GCC used in Red
Hat 7.0 and 7.1. Unfortunately, for technical reasons, the Mandrake
developers decided to use the same version number as Red Hat used for
their GCC (2.96), creating heaps of confusion in the process. Mandrake
have been compiling Cooker with their GCC (a pruning from the
then-unfinished 3.0 tree) for months now, with no problems whatsoever.
Hopefully Mandrake will end this confusion by releasing a GCC 3.0
package. Red Hat have already done so, and have labelled it as a
critical update.
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 15:35, Adam Willcox wrote:
> I've heard and read rumors that the version of gcc included in
> Mandrake 8.0 is bad. As evidence I recently upgraded my nvidia
> video driver and had to compile it about 50 times before the module
> would successfully load. Has anyone else heard, read, or otherwise
> experienced the same?
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Sridhar Dhanapalan.
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-- Jeremy S. Anderson
