Re: [Cooker] Why gcc 2.96 and not 3.0?

[Chris Mumford]

> gcc3.0 is in contrib and wasn't ready when mdk8.0 got out of the box
(needless
> to says that using a new compiler means rebuilding all packages (3-4 days
with
> rpm-rebuilder) and _testing_)

The only package that I know has problems with 2.96 is LAME. It builds, but
has runtime errors in the release build. I switched to the 3.0 compiler and
the problems went away.