Dear Mike,

> Which is not surprising since rawhide specifically is NOT 
> supposed to work on Red Hat Linux 7.1 or 7.2, since it
> has been compiled mostly with gcc 3.1.  Rawhide is our
> internal development tree, and is not ever intended, nor
> advertised to be stable or useable.  Rawhide is as close
> to downloading XFree86 off my hard disk while I'm
> editing the source code as you can get.  Not something
> you should _ever_ expect to work, or expect to work
> without problems.

*** Don't get me wrong - I did NOT blame RH for anything. My apologies if it sounded 
like that - that was not my intention. I've been around long enough to know the 
caveats of RawHide... My only intention was to inform people that they should NOT take 
my route w/o due care... 

Speaking of RawHide - this is the first time in probably 4-odd years that I had a 
catastrophic experience with RPMs from  there. Occasionally one has to pay the price 
for living on the edge... :-) In this particular case, I dont (and didn't) mind as 
there is nothing on the system (yet) appart from RH72 so it's easy to reinstall...

> That said, my XFree86 4.2.0 RPM's that have been
> compiled and packaged for Red Hat Linux 7.2 work fairly
> well, and do not have the dependancies referenced
> above.
>
> <grin>

*** Do I smell a hint of an offer here?? :-)) Jokes aside, it *would* be awfully nice 
of you to make these RPMs available somewhere... <bg>

TIA...

--Nino

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