ooopsssieee...not so fast! =)
i went to the kernel mailing list archives after reading mike's suggested
article, and searched for the thread regarding linus' criticism of rh7 and its
compiler. apparently, it wasnt a closed argument. it was a tradeoff between
having binary compatibilities with other linux distros and c++ stability. if you
follow the thread and discussions, where were quite interesting by the way,
you'll see. in fact, alan cox defended the release of rh7 with gcc-2.96.
anyway, i was able to find a fix. still have to try it out though. here it is:
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It's not in the X tree or anything, but here's a personal example.
Machine: Dual P3 550
HDD: Dual Ultra2Wide Seagate 18GB Hdd
OS: RedHat 7
Compile Target: Linux Kernel 2.2.17
Result with gcc 2.96: Failure (syntax errors in the i386 branch of the
arch tree)
Result with compat-egcs-62: Success on the first try.
--- end quote ---
happy holidays guys and gals. =)
vince.
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
> thanks mike. that's it then...i'm moving to mandrake. =)
>
> vince.
>
> Quoting "Michael J. Maravillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > You might want to take a look at this article:
> >
> > "Linus Savages Red Hat 7.0"
> > http://linuxgram.com/newsitem.phtml?sid=109&aid=11453
> >
> > Quoting Linus:
> >
> > "I don't know why RH decided to do their idiotic gcc-2.96 release
> > (it certainly wasn't approved by any technical gcc people - the
> > gcc people were upset about it too), and I find it even more
> > surprising that they apparently KNEW that the compiler they were
> > using was completely broken. They included another (non-broken)
> > compiler, and called it "kgcc."
> >
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