[TriLUG] Upgrade to RH 7.2, no gcc>2.96 update from Red Hat

Ed Hill ed at eh3.com
Wed Jan 23 14:09:23 EST 2002


On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 06:40, Benjamin Reed wrote:
> Rodent of Unusual Size [Ken.Coar at golux.com] wrote:
> > Cool enough.  But when I told it to go ahead, it brought
> > up the gritch (which I had forgotten) about gcc 2.96 not
> > being officially supported by the kernel devos.  So I looked
> > on RH's update site, but they have nothing newer (though it's
> > been a few months now).
> > 
> > What is the appropriate thing to do?  Stick with 2.96,
> > up/downgrade to some other version, wait for RH to supply
> > an update RPM?
> 
> I'm doubting RH will supply an updated RPM before 8.x; they definitely
> fix bugs in their current codebase, but they don't change things like
> compilers across minor versions.
> 
> On the other hand, 2.96-84 is very solid and does not have the bugs
> that caused the original uproar about them releasing a compiler
> early.  Just make sure you've got the latest updates and you're fine.


I don't have the URL to prove it, but I'm fairly certain that Alan Cox
stated that recent releases of RH's gcc 2.96 is just fine for kernel
compilations.

Ed


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