[Gllug] updating red hat
Darren Evans
devans at presscentre.net
Fri Nov 9 03:46:04 UTC 2001
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 03:36:02PM +0000, tet at accucard.com wrote:
>
> >When is Red Hat going to start using gcc 3, and why have they not yet?
>
> It's shipped in RH7.2. They won't start using by default it until 8.0,
> because to do so would break their long standing and well publicised
> commitment to keep binary compatibility between major version numbers.
I noticed gcc 3 RPM's were on cd2 of Redhat 7.2 but not installed when
looking into compiling mplayer.
Has anyone done the gcc 2.x to gcc 3.x rpm upgrade? Is it seamless,
or are there issues?
regards,
Darren
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