Re: basename()?

2000-08-20 Thread Tony Nugent
On Sun Aug 20 2000 at 21:03, Chris Abbey wrote: > At 10:35 8/19/00 -0700, Joseph Malicki wrote: > >glibc is documented in info, not manpages. the manpages there are just > >an incomplete and in some cases inaccurate collection, werent they from > >libc5 or something? The wonders of GNU software.

RE: basename()?

2000-08-20 Thread Christopher Medalis
#:At 10:35 8/19/00 -0700, Joseph Malicki wrote: #:>glibc is documented in info, not manpages. the manpages there are just #:>an incomplete and in some cases inaccurate collection, werent they from #:>libc5 or something? The wonders of GNU software... #: Isn't "INFO" the official doc format fo

RE: basename()?

2000-08-20 Thread Chris Abbey
At 10:35 8/19/00 -0700, Joseph Malicki wrote: >glibc is documented in info, not manpages. the manpages there are just >an incomplete and in some cases inaccurate collection, werent they from >libc5 or something? The wonders of GNU software... then can we please get rid of the stupid man page

Re: gcc-2.95.2

2000-08-20 Thread Trond Eivind Glomsrød
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Jesso ) writes: > Well I am a new Linux user. I am trying to compile a C++ program which > uses . It is not in my distro with 6.2. Try the 7.0beta - it should be included there. > I am new, so bare with me. What led me to believe that gcc replaces > egcs is: http://gc

Re: basename()?

2000-08-20 Thread Tony Nugent
On Sat Aug 19 2000 at 10:35, "Joseph Malicki" wrote: > glibc is documented in info, not manpages. the manpages there are just > an incomplete and in some cases inaccurate collection, werent they from > libc5 or something? The wonders of GNU software... I **HATE** info, it is the most un-int

Re: gcc-2.95.2

2000-08-20 Thread Fred W. Noltie Jr.
> Well I am a new Linux user. I am trying to compile a C++ program which > uses . It is not in my distro with 6.2. > > I am new, so bare with me. What led me to believe that gcc replaces > egcs is: http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html > > "After the April 1999 merger between GCC and EGCS, only a si

Re: gcc-2.95.2

2000-08-20 Thread Jason Jesso
Well I am a new Linux user. I am trying to compile a C++ program which uses . It is not in my distro with 6.2. I am new, so bare with me. What led me to believe that gcc replaces egcs is: http://gcc.gnu.org/releases.html "After the April 1999 merger between GCC and EGCS, only a single version n

Re: Is RedHat Linux's worst ennemy?

2000-08-20 Thread Fred W. Noltie Jr.
> As a reluctant windoze developer newly encountering the Linux > learning curve, I may have a few useful observations to > contribute. I lurk on this development forum because I'm hoping > to eventually port my software products to Linux, but so far my > company only uses Linux for its servers.

Re: gcc-2.95.2

2000-08-20 Thread Fred W. Noltie Jr.
> Where are the rpm's for gcc-2.95.2? Surely it doesn't take almost a > year to build this update. And why not provide gcc-2.95.2 with the 6.2 > distro?? > > Yes, I can download the source and compile it myself, or better yet > maybe even make the rpm distro myself but that is besides the point.

Re: Is RedHat Linux's worst ennemy?

2000-08-20 Thread kort
Stanislav Meduna wrote: > > I personally thought that Red Hat is the company with > the strongest potential to bring the Linux "to the masses", > i.e. also to desktop users. If your top priority is chasing > performance to beat MS in some server benchmark results, > this is a bad news for me and

Re: gcc-2.95.2

2000-08-20 Thread Bill Nottingham
Jason Jesso ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > I purchased redhat Linux 6.2 which was released around Apr-June 2000. > On this distribution they have egcs and no gcc. Isn't egcs history now? > > On October 24, 1999 the GCC team released GCC 2.95.2. All I can find on > Redhat pages are rpm's for gcc-2.

gcc-2.95.2

2000-08-20 Thread Jason Jesso
I purchased redhat Linux 6.2 which was released around Apr-June 2000. On this distribution they have egcs and no gcc. Isn't egcs history now? On October 24, 1999 the GCC team released GCC 2.95.2. All I can find on Redhat pages are rpm's for gcc-2.95.1. Where are the rpm's for gcc-2.95.2? Surely