guy keren wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Maxim Kryachko wrote:
>
> > Having recently installed RH7 I tried to compile several things, such as
> > modem driver, new kernel and modules, in all cases compiler (gcc) reports of
> > a bunch of errors and exits.
> > Both modem driver and kernel (2.3.9) compile OK in Slackware 7on gcc-2.92.
> > Now I use version 2.96 of gcc, which comes with the distribution. Did anyone
> > experienced same problem?
>
> what you've encountered is probably redhat's most foolish act when
> preparing RH v7.0: taking a beta version of gcc and putting that as the
> compiler for their distribution. gcc 2.95 is the latest stable version of
> gcc. 2.96 is a snapshot version, and not stable.
>
> note that this might or might not be related to your specific compilatin
> problems - there could be other problems, such as missing include files on
> your system, etc.
This _is_ related. According to what I heard,
RH7 comes with gcc "2.96", which does not exist, and gcc 2.95, which is called
kgcc.
In any case, compiling kernel with gcc 2.96 is hardly possible (if at all).
>
>
> i will conclude with the same warning as from a flame war from a few weeks
> back - don't install *.0 versions of RH - wait till *.1 (or even *.2) for
> things to stabilize (or use a different distribution - thought i've no
> idea how stable their *.0 versions are).
>
> guy
>
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> or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy
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