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Re: Compiler for Red Hat Linux 8
- To: Ken Whaley <ken at believe dot com>
- Subject: Re: Compiler for Red Hat Linux 8
- From: Toon Moene <toon at moene dot indiv dot nluug dot nl>
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 00:30:19 +0200
- CC: Sergey Ostrovsky <sostrovs at kns dot com>, "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: Moene Computational Physics, Maartensdijk, The Netherlands
- References: <NDBBKBAPHBIINMMNGLHEOECDDCAA.ken@believe.com>
Ken Whaley wrote:
> I?ve just gone through this process, pretty much exactly
> as Sergey described, including digging around trying to
> find info on what patches, versions, etc. of the tools
> are required, and agree that it?s a sort of black magic.
> Saying ?use an official released version to build your
> system? becomes a lot more palatable if there would always
> be an up-to-date trio of officially released binutils/glibc/gcc
> that all work together. Easier said than done, I agree, but
> that would be a wonderful thing to achieve. When these 3
> pieces achieve alignment so rarely, it doesn?t suprise me that
> vendors dig in and make their own modifications.
Well, I'm not that convinced that the problems related here are absent
on your Operating System Of Choice, i.e., the one that insert question
marks in your e-mails everytime you think you type a quote (')
character.
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