On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 18:31, J.A. Magallon wrote:

> On 2002.03.12 Brad Felmey wrote:
> >Is this correct? I thought one of the ideas behind source was to
> >eliminate dependencies like this. Not wanting that screwed-up bastard
> >stepchild known as gcc3 on my box in the first place is why I need to
> >build from source. Now I find it's a build requirement?
> 
> Afraid of a real compiler ;) ??

Not at all. In fact, that's part of the problem. I installed gcc3 when
it very first came out, and I'm still so PO'd over how badly I got hosed
over that fiasco that I'm averse to trying it again until there is a
whole lot of empirical evidence that it's a different (better) animal
than it was the last time I tried it.
-- 
Brad Felmey


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