On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 00:30 -0700, Peter B. Steiger wrote: > For years, I have avoided gcc 4 because it sounds like it's more trouble > than it's worth. Many lfs/blfs instructions involve applying a patch to > the source that will resolve gcc 4 issues, and that suggests to me that > (some? most?) Linux source was still designed with gcc 3 in mind.
There are still some libraries and programs that while often necessary, haven't been updated. Things like glib 1.2 for example - it's a pre-req for a number of libraries, but it's no longer supported by the developers (last release was in 2002). Or cdparanoia, needed by many media apps, but not updated in the last 5 years. That said, the number of patches still needed is pretty small - most of mine are for media libraries that are probably considered feature-complete and therefore no longer maintained. Some of them might have been updated since I last looked - it's been a while since I checked up on them all. Simon.
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