RHEL 7.6

[Dennis Clarke]

On 3/6/19 7:32 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-03-06 at 18:13 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> That is the best answer here.  For some obscure reason more and more
>> people have forgotten that open source means you can freely go get
>> the sources and just build it. However the distro-masses are large
>> and loud and they just want what they want and no idea that the whole
>> source base is there freely.
> 
> Building a complex piece of software like GCC is not quite so easy as
> "./configure && make", especially when you need it to interoperate with
> systems that may have been built with much older versions (there are
> issues around STL versioning etc. which are not always trivial to
> resolve).
> 
> I get why people are more interested in having someone else do that
> work for them: not everyone has time to learn to do everything.
> 

"not everyone has time ..."

The most true words on the internet today.

dc