[Gllug] updating red hat

[Russell Mackenzie]

When is Red Hat going to start using gcc 3, and why have they not yet?

Russ.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ms. Lene Jensen" <ljensen at redhat.com>
To: <gllug at linux.co.uk>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Gllug] updating red hat


> On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Jackson, Harry wrote:
>
> Hi Harry,
>
> I am a bit confused as to what you want to do, upgrade you RH6.1 box to
> 7.2? The Red Hat distribution for 7.X has XFree86v4 included in the
> distro, anyway, if you want to upgrade your X and not your RH, you can
> upgrade your rpm-database and install the XFree86-rpm.
>
> > I noticed in the install readme for some of these files that gcc3 was
not to
> > be used, is this the broken RH gcc they are referring to (just curious I
do
> > not have it).
>
> Red Hat never shipped a broken gcc, what we did, for RH7 only, was to ship
> a gcc which was newer than the kernel packages needed.  So to compile a
> kernel, you needed an old version, which we called kgcc.  For RH7.1 and
> RH7.2 we are using the same version as anyone else.  The gcc was never
> broken, it was just too new for the kernel.  Our gcc was version 2.96, the
> kgcc was 2.95, which all the other distros used at the time. Hope this
> cleared that up :)
>
> LJ
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