James Sparenberg wrote on Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 10:15:52AM -0700 :
> My understanding from the discussions I've seen on the net is that the
> developers who do gcc listened and did include backwards compat for
> programs previously compiled under gcc 2.2 or greater.  So far my
> results on a box running cooker have proven this to be true.

gcc-2.96 compiled binaries do not in fact have binary compatibility with
gcc-3.2 compiled programs.  The biggest example of this at the present
is the fact that some gcc-2.96 compiled binary only proprietary modules
are experiencing problems being loaded in a gcc-3.2 compiled kernel.
This is not just Mandrake experiencing this, this info is from a RedHat
mailing list from their kernel developers.

Stay tuned, things will get better soon.

Blue skies...                   Todd
-- 
  Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc.   http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because 
  that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn
   Cooker Version mandrake-release-9.0-0.3mdk Kernel 2.4.19-5mdk

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