[NTLUG:Discuss] Evil GCC-2.96

[Rick Cook]

On Wednesday 13 June 2001 06:29, Steve Baker wrote:
>

Wow, I received this 7 hours before you sent it...

> I thought that was only true in RH 7.0 - where it's a *very* nasty
> issue BTW.

Red Hat 7.1 is still using gcc 2.96. I don't know if they did something to 
the kernel make process to force it to pick the 2.95.x gcc for kernel 
compiles.

>
> Just try building something like the nVidia OpenGL stuff on it
> where some of the code runs in user-space (and hence uses
> the evil version of gcc) and some as a kernel module (and hence
> needs kgcc)...it was a nightmare.
>

I would expect this to still be a problem in Red Hat 7.1. Not only that, the 
"evil" has overflowed into Mandrake 8.0.


Rick
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