On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 20:54, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >
> sure RH is the pioneer here. But I can't see enough excuse on branching to a > "gcc 2.96" in RH 7.0, despite master hacker Alan Cox et al from RH says, > when gcc-3.0 was to be released just a few months later. I don't know if they > should've just waited then, instead of releasing a compiler that would produce > code that's neither forward or backward compatible. Anyway thanks to RH for > all their invaluable contributions to the Linux community... ah the real reason behind with 2.96 was that bash wont compile on s390 <snip> and they wanted IA64 support ASAP (business reasons). Oh, and GCC 2.95 miscompiles bash on the s390 architecture (there is no RedHat distribution for s390..) </snip> ahh sorry i wrote on the other post it was as/400 bleh my bad -- -Dek [EMAIL PROTECTED] " profile, don't speculate" _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
