[NTLUG:Discuss] Evil GCC-2.96

[Greg Edwards]

Steve Baker wrote:
> 
> Chris Cox wrote:
> >
> > I'm not a RH 7.1 user, but I believe they tell you the kernel
> > has to be compiled with kgcc (a supported gcc) instead of
> > the default non supported (except by RH of course) one.
> 
> I thought that was only true in RH 7.0 - where it's a *very* nasty
> issue BTW.
> 
> 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.
> 
> ----------------------------- Steve Baker -------------------------------


Is RH still the only distrib hooked up with 2.96?

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Greg Edwards <greg at nas-inet.com>