Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 23 Nov 2001 11:50:11 -0800 | From | J Sloan <> | Subject | Re: Which gcc version? |
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This is all silly FUD - time for the pointer again -
http://www.bero.org/gcc296.html
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jjs
Gábor Lénárt wrote:
> True, but as it's known, gcc-2.96 is NOT an official gcc release by the gcc > team. It was RedHat's fault to fetch a development CVS gcc snapshot and > release it as gcc 2.96 in RedHat distributions, while object format used by > 2.96 is not compatible with 2.95 nor 3.0.x at least according information > can be found on site of gcc. It was very ROTFL RedHat to release kgcc to be > able to compile kernel. And these type of distributions are marked as even > enterprise-ready and likes by RedHat :) Sorry for the flame, but IMHO it's > very funny :) [Also, while developing MPlayer we had got problems with even > newer 2.96's, so we do not recommend it in the dox, and ./configure won't > able you to use 2.96 without a special configure switch ...] >
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