[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >Rev. Shamim Mohamed D.D. writes: > >> > This is theoretically a good idea, but in practice, automated >> > dependancy fulfillment is a bad idea behind a metered Internet >> > link. >> >> It's automatic if you run it that way. If you execute pkg_add without >> setting the env. variable PKG_PATH it will not run recursively. > >Ah. Of course. Foot removed from mouth. :-) > >> > RH6.2 [...] current version of RedHat now being 7.2 >> >> Does RedHat still have the problem of using a non-released >> experimental version of egcs? > >On 7.2? I don't know. > >On the mirrors, RH 7.2 has GCC 2.96 (build 98), 7.1 has GCC 2.96 (build 81) >and 7.0 has GCC 2.96 (build 54). It looks like they might still be using a >custom version of an experimental EGCS. Glibc versions are 2.2.4, 2.2.2 and >2.1.92, respectively. > >There is also a (small) problem building on 6.2: stock 6.2 shipped a GCC >with a known floating point bug. The Ogg Vorbis team stumbled over this one. >They were not amused. Fortunately, there is a patch from RedHat for that. > >If it helps any, I've got a 7.1 and a 6.2 install on different PCs. But >them, someone's already mentioned SourceForge's build farm. > >Wade.
That's the bogus one. <http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html> If you do a Google search for "gcc 2.96", you'll find Mplayer and MySQL people complaining about strange build problems, and also random RedHat users and employees flaming back about it. Steve _______________________________________________ Unicon-group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unicon-group
