Michael,
There are TONS of messages on the net (some from Alan Cox which seems to
know what he is talking about) about the fact that the gcc 2.96 is NOT a
release, that it produces broken kernel. It is easy to find on the net :
search for "checksum.S badly punctuated".
The gcc web site has a special page about this and is warning that some
distributions
are distributing this compiler which is not, and will never produce code
compatible with either 2.95 or 3.0 . They even claim that such release does
NOT exist from their point of view.
Now, why in the world RH keeps putting untested, unsupported code in their
"stable" distribs ?
How is that they didn't try to compile their own kernel with the compiler
they distribute ?
Why was the glibc distributed in 6.2 bugged ?
Why is the glibc distributed in 7.0 bugged ?
It might happen you did not upgrade gcc. But the pb is very well known and
as far as I can tell there is NO update or errata for it at the redhat site.
Now, it is simple: I deinstall their compiler, go and find another STABLE
one, recompile my kernel which was not properly installed in the first place
(why ?) and I lost a full day "upgrading".
So, no I am not happy with the job RH is doing as it is not the first time
it happens.
Sorry, I am tired of this.
And big thanks for your help :=)
Philippe
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael R. Jinks
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 3:43 PM
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Subject: Re: 7.0 "upgrade" pbs ... more and WARNING
Philippe Moutarlier wrote:
>
> I respond to myself as it seems that it is a well known pb with RH 7.0 .
> the shipped version is bugged !!!!!
What makes you say this? Be specific. I've had no trouble using RH7, and
I've
now compiled the kernel several times, so I'm inclined to suspect that
something
is wrong with your machine, not with the distribution itself. If this is a
well-known issue, there should be a fix available.
(Note: my RH7 machines have been patched with the Red Hat errata (available
via
ftp if you're still having problems with up2date), so well-known bugs
present on
the CD may have been fixed for me, and could be for you if you apply the
updates.)
--
Michael Jinks, IB // Technical Entity // Saecos Corporation
"No one speaks English and everything's broken." -- T. Waits
"Tom Waits would have made a decent sysadmin." -- M. Jinks
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