Zach VanderVeen writes:
 > I said that I installed Mandrake 8.1 in my first email.

Indeed you did, sorry I overlooked that!

 I have kernel
 > 2.4.8-26.
 > 
 > gcc -v says:
 > Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-mandrake-linux-gnu/2.96/specs
 > gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Mandrake Linux 8.1 2.96-0.62mdk)

 > Why don't those kernel version match up? Is that the problem?

The gcc version and the kernel version aren't supposed to match, they
are two separate versions of software.  2.96 is the gcc version, the
info in parens is describing what kind of system gcc was built on).

 > I understand you need information, but I wouldn't be asking questions if I
 > knew anything. I put what I thought was relevant info in my first email.

Yes, I read right over the mention of "mandrake",  and I didn't mean
to give you a hard time about it.

What's going on, I think, is that Mandrake has followed RedHat's lead
in shipping distros with broken C compilers.  (I find this rather
annoying and counterproductive).  There was a fiasco when RH7.0 came
out, it shipped with their "enhanced" gcc which (IIRC) gave better
performance benchmarks on IA64 cpus, but was never blessed for release
by the GCC maintainers - it was a "not ready for prime time"
development snapshot that the geniuses at RedHat foisted upon the
world.  Looks like now the geniuses at Mandrake are doing the same
thing.  Do some Googling for "gcc 2.96" and you'll find more than you
wanted to know about this.

I would recommend replacing your compiler with gcc-2.95.3, which,
in my experience, is quite usable.

Hope this helps.

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