Hi Jason, On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 02:10:05PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I notice from the list of RPMs that the 8.2 beta 1 release has gcc-2.9.6 > gcc3.0 and egcs-1.1.2. > > In addition to making the distribution larger, I would think that > distributing multiple compilers complicates support issues.
Why ? egcs is only included for backward compatibility issues (I would even have preferred gcc 2.95.3 in Mandrake still being available, at least in contrib, though 2.96 is relatively stable it is a dead-end, never officially supported compiler and 2.95.3 is nowadays still the main compiler for many developers). > Are there packages in the Mandrake distribution which can not compile > with gcc 3.0? Are there any packages in the Mandrake distribution which > still require egcs to compile? Yes there are compatibility issues, especially binary incompatibilities. You would have to recompile the whole distribution and you'd break binary compatibility with redhat packages. I suppose egcs is needed for compat packages and maybe kernel 2.2. Regards, Reinhard -- Software-Engineer, Developer for Embedded Devices Project: Pertergrin, a role playing game system GnuPG Public Key available on request
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