Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 30 Sep 2000 21:42:55 +0200 | From | Marc Lehmann <> | Subject | Re: What is up with Redhat 7.0? |
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On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 09:28:18PM +0200, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@redhat.de> wrote: > > OTOH, drepper@redhat.com might get pressed into not doing incompatible > > changes, > > We're doing no such thing.
If you say so.... However, I am not sure that you (we?) can actually control it.
> If we did this sort of thing, he would have been pressed into releasing > glibc 2.2 in time.
Well, I actually do think that this has happened with glibc-2.1.
> > own people (e.g. from cygnus) who I really believe didn't support their > The opposite is the case. They didn't want to have to support a dead > branch (2.1/2.95).
So they took a snapshot of gcc that is known to be broken, fixed it up a bit and released it as working code (from http://www.redhat.com/products/software/linux/rhl7_new_features.html):
"GCC Compiler 2.96 GCC 2.96 allows for faster optimized code and more complete C++ support." This is neither true nor honest - there is no gcc compiler 2.96 (gcc is named gnu compiler colelction, btw!), and that their version is a seriously hacked non standard gcc snapshot, still, is alraedy causing quite a few bogus bug reports.
It already forced the gcc maintainers to bump the internal version from 2.96 to 2.97.
> > Redhat might just hack their libc to be redhat-7.0 compatible > That's what we'll do if any incompatible changes will be necessary - > fortunately glibc supports versioning.
Yes. "Your product doesn't work? Our redhat libc works for your software - download it here. no, the compatitors are not gnu/linux compatible". Great future.
Anyway, my pont *here* is that the kernel shouldn't explicitly support this marketing.
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