Re: redhat rawhide

["mitch(rezn)" <gte203h at prism dot gatech dot edu>]

I can see why they might need to stick with 2.96 because of redhat 7.0 but
still. Could you please give one valid reason for them doing this over using
gcc 2.95? The gcc site even says that 2.96 and 2.97 aren't compatible with
official gcc releases.


Jeffrey A Law wrote:

>   In message <200101162006.MAA26137@racerx.synopsys.com>you write:
>   >
>   >
>   > > I decided to check out redhat's rawhide directory and of course they
>   > > have gcc 2.96 in there even after the whole redhat 7.0 battle with it.
>   > > Is anyone going to smack some sense into them?
>   >
>   > Please, let's not start another flame war on this topic on this list.
>   > Surely there's some Red Hat user mailing list you can use.
> Like Joe, I don't want to start another flame war here.    But just so
> everyone knows....
>
> Red Hat will be sticking with the same base compiler for its next release;
> it will (of course) have bugfixes since the Red Hat 7 release.
>
> I'm in the process of working with the various groups inside Red Hat to
> make sure we have appropriate documentation on precisely what compilers
> we're using, why we're using them, that will be made available to everyone
> that's interested.
>
> Flames to /dev/null please :-)
>
> jeff