On Thu, Feb 01, 2001, mulix wrote about "redhat 6.2 was (Re: Beta Testers are
Required)":
> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote:
>
> > I'm curious why people still use Redhat 6.2. I've been using Redhat 7.0
>..
> The reason i'm sticking with redhat 6.2, insteading of switching to 7.0 or
> the almost released 7.1 is simple- gcc and kgcc. Redhat 7.0 (as you know)
> wes released with gcc 2.96, a NOT official branch of the gcc tree, which
> while improving c++ support, broke kernel compilations. Now, maybe having
> a semi-functional compiler on the system is acceptable to you, but it's
> not to me. Add to that redhat's rather unfriendly manner towards the
> community on this issue (imho) and lousy history with *.0 releases, and
> you know why i was looking for a 6.2 install cd.
I see I won't be able to convince you :)
>From my experience (and I program with C++ and C on a Redhat 7 machine all
the time), the non-official gcc 2.96 of Redhat 7 is actually better in
many respects (I think mainly in C++ support) than the gcc in Redhat 6.2.
In fact, what you call redhat's "unfriendly" answer on this issue is that
gcc has come such a long way since Redhat 6.2 was released, that they
felt they couldn't revert back to the old gcc just because the gcc team
didn't decide it's time to release it.
True, gcc 2.96 can't compile a kernel correctly. "kgcc", a copy of the older
gcc, is included in Redhat 7 for that purpose, and while this solution is
a little ugly, it works perfectly.
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