Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 Dec 2000 17:11:47 -0700 (MST) | From | Dan Egli <> | Subject | Re: Signal 11 |
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On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Yes. > > And I realize that somebody inside RedHat really wanted to use a snapshot > in order to get some C++ code to compile right. > > But it at the same time threw C stability out the window, by using a > not-very-widely-tested snapshot for a major new release. > > Are you seriously saying that you think it was a good trade-off? Or are > you just ashamed of admitting that RH did something stupid? > Pardon the poking in here, but I must say I agree here. RH did a VERY dumb thing.
> I have a report from a Sony VAIO user that couldn't compile the CVS X at > all on his picturebook (and you need to compile the CVS tree in order to > get required fixes for the ATI Rage Mobility in that machine). I don't > know the details, but they were apparently due to RH 7 issues.
It's not in the X tree or anything, but here's a personal example. Machine: Dual P3 550 HDD: Dual Ultra2Wide Seagate 18GB Hdd OS: RedHat 7 Compile Target: Linux Kernel 2.2.17 Result with gcc 2.96: Failure (syntax errors in the i386 branch of the arch tree) Result with compat-egcs-62: Success on the first try.
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