[NTLUG:Discuss] Evil GCC-2.96

[Steve Baker]

Rick Cook wrote:
> 
> On Wednesday 13 June 2001 06:29, Steve Baker wrote:
> >
> 
> Wow, I received this 7 hours before you sent it...

   Time is the same in a relative way - but you're older...
                       -- Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon.


It's a relativistic effect of slowing down over my vacation :-)

> > 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.

WHAT!?!!  After all the outcry at the screwup in 7.0, they didn't fix it
in 7.1 !?!

Geez...that sucks.
 
> 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.

<groan>
 
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