PATCH: bugs.html

[Andreas Jaeger]

Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> writes:

> On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>>>  <li>GCC 2.95.2 does not build on GNU/Linux systems using glibc 2.2,
>>> -such as Red Hat 7.0.
>>> -A <a href=" http://gcc.gnu.org/install/glibc-2.2.patch" ;>patch</a> is
>>> -available.  This is fixed in GCC 2.95.3 and GCC 3.0.</li>
>>> +such as Red Hat 7.0.  This is fixed in GCC 2.95.3 and GCC 3.0.</li>
>> This information is wrong - you cannot compile glibc 2.2 with GCC 3.0,
>> that's a topic of another section somewhere.
> 
> Note that my patch did not introduce this, that is, the incorrect
> information predates my patch.  :-) /2  +  :-( /2

I know.

> Anyway, good that we spotted this in time for 3.0.2 -- I just committed
> the patch below.  Thanks for the information!
> 
> (When will this incompatibility be fixed, that is, where's the problem?

One problem was in GCC and one in GLIBC.  The GCC problem was fixed
for GCC 3.0.1 but the GLIBC problem is still unfixed.  We have one
patch that needs polishing up and I hope that then everybody is happy.

> If you have information you consider suitable for the bugs.html page,
> please consider any patches pre-approved!)

As soon as the patch for glibc is in, I'll try to remember to take
care of the bugs.html page for GCC.

Thanks,
Andreas
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