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

[Christian Zoffoli]

Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> 
> "Chris Mumford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Why is Mandrake distributing the 2.96 gcc compiler and not 3.0?
> 
> 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_)


...so I think it's more interesting addressing the efforts to a new
standard compiler rather than waste time in a "virtual" compiler
composed by 350 patches. 


Christian

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