Svante Signell wrote:
> Regarding the question whether egcs or gcc is going to be the default
> compiler is important, regardless of building for i386 or i686. The
> glibc spec file (2.1.2-17) had egcs hardcoded in, causing the library
> to fail install, see earlier postings!! It installed OK with
> gcc-2.95.2!. Furthermore, installing gcc completely erases egcs, so you
> have to choose!!
I've complained about egcs hardcoding to Red Hat, and submitted reports
to bugzilla for specific packages. The last I heard on the subject was
that Red Hat would continue to use egcs until they could build everything
with gcc. The kernel is a problem as the inline assembly needs to have
constraint changes to produce the required machine code...or so I've heard.
Note that I build a Red Hat based distribution for StrongARM architecture,
which uses gcc entirely (firmware and kernel included). I used egcs until
it was merged back into gcc. The simplest solution is to symlink egcs->gcc
Works for me.
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