Hi,
> On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Oden Eriksson wrote:
>
> > The switch from egcs to pgcs forced me to abandon Mandrake 6 to RH6.
>
> Why? pgcc and egcs are 100% compatible. pgcc is just egcs + some patches
> to improve optimizations on newer processors (anything starting from a
> pentium).
Well, I had all the devel libs installed, yet it was not possible to
compile linuxconf, and some qmail apps.
> > Even
> > if I did install egcs, many programs still had problems to compile.
>
> Could it be that you're having a problem with the switch glibc 2.0.x ->
> 2.1.x? glibc 2.1.x is not fully compatible with 2.0.x, and far more likely
> to cause compilation problems than a changed compiler. Or did you forget
> to install some of the -devel packages? (glibc-devel, kernel-headers, ...)
I don't know, I'm no expert in these matters.
> > I guess my copy was built for i586, and not for i686 and this could
> > have been the source of some of the problems...
>
> No. i686 is fully compatible with i586. I'm using M6 on a dual PIII-450
> without problems.
Ok.
Well, anyhow..., everything started to work smoothly on RH6, so why
bother ?
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