Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] gcc-2.96-0.7mdk

[David Walluck]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Jason Straight wrote:

> I understand there's a special kernel compiler or something on redhat because 
> the kernel won't compile with 2.96? Is that so or am I wrong here?
> 
> In either case 2.96 is the wrong way to go.

That is true. They used to have egcs to compile the kernel anyway (even
though gcc worked). As I stated before, The 2.96 snapshot I used a while
back (0.1mdk I think) couldn't even compile basic apps like gaim or xchat
(and these aren't C++ programs).