[Gllug] updating red hat

[Walid]

 --- "Ms. Lene Jensen" <ljensen at redhat.com> wrote: > 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

Well It was not really! was it? it was a nightly snapshot IIRC

> kgcc was 2.95, which all the other distros used at the time. Hope this
> cleared that up :)
> 
> LJ
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