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Re: Compiler for Red Hat Linux 8
- To: hjl at lucon dot org (H . J . Lu)
- Subject: Re: Compiler for Red Hat Linux 8
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot COM>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 13:21:59 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: jbuck at synopsys dot com (Joe Buck), aj at suse dot de (Andreas Jaeger), geoffk at redhat dot com (Geoff Keating), gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
HJ writes:
> What may
> happpen is noone can use the to-be-released gcc 3.0.1 to build the
> whole Linux distribution before it is released. They may take a gcc
> snapshot and go from there. When they finally find all the compiler
> bugs, gcc 3.0.1 has been released. Then they will start all over
> again. As the result, you still need to make gcc 3.0.2 if you want to
> use it to build the whole Linux distribution.
If so, then we'll make 3.0.2, and because of scheduling, some people may
release GNU/Linux distros with 3.0.1+patches because 3.0.2 wasn't out
yet.