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    SubjectRe: [OFFTOPIC]: MS Porting Office to Linux?
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    In message <199903181405.BAA03889@zipper.zip.com.au>, CaT writes:
    +-----
    | Horst von Brand wrote the following:
    | > > > so, when will glibc 2.1 really be available and which "political issues
    | "
    | > > > have to be worked out (for more than a month now) ?
    | >
    | > AFAIU, the trouble is that it won't build with gcc-2.8.1
    |
    | As I basically said in a private mail: So what?
    +--->8

    The official FSF standard compiler is gcc 2.8.1.
    The glibc-2.1 folks made it only build with egcs, *and* put derogatory
    comments about gcc 2.8.1 in the source.

    The FSF is not happy about this.

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    brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
    system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu
    carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
    We are Linux. Resistance is an indication that you missed the point.

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