On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Svante Signell wrote:
>I did not manage to compile the latest rawhide XFree86 using
>gcc-2.95.2 either, not even even after applying the hints about the
>*.gz man file problem and strip problems. Maybe I'm too lazy, some
>tweaking of spec files is always necessary :)
>
>I've been a user and supporter of RedHat for some years now (you are
>still promoting a lot of good software in the free software arena,
>thank you RedHat. You used to be the market leaders, what happened?.
>Others are catching up!)
>
>Maybe its time to move to other distributions using gcc :-(
>(I'm already using a few of them, on other computers.)
Why bother making such a comment? If you are unsatisfied, by all
means try another distribution. IMHO RedHat is the best
distribution available, however no distribution is
perfect. Probs come and go - fact of life. I've been bitten in
major ways from time to time. I've tried Caldera, Debian, Suse,
and Slackware and IMNSHO none can shake a stick at
RedHat. Everyone has their own taste however, so others may
favor a different dist.
My only complaint about egcs 2.95* being included is that the
kernel folk say NOT to use it to compile the kernel. I hope that
redhat includes gcc-2.7.2.3 or the egcs from 6.1 with the new
dist so kernel compiles aren't risky. Then again, even if they
do include 2.95 only, it will make the kernel folk fix bugs
faster too. You can always uninstall it, and install the
compiler from an older dist too.. which is likely what I will
do.
Anyone try out the free Borland C compiler in Linux yet? Good
ole bcc?
Let me know if you have, and if it compiles the kernel at all. I
doubt it will though. The kernel has a lot of gccisms.
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