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[Net Llama!]

On 01/29/03 19:16, tom wrote:
> "Net Llama!" <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:
> 
>>On 01/29/03 17:59, tom wrote:
>>> I would stay away from RH or Mandrake, since the compilier
>>> is now non-GNU, and is somewhat troublesome on the
>>> edition after 7.0, without severe patching.
>>
>>Huh?  Where did you get that idea?
> 
> Uhm, well,  I don't know.  :)
> 
> Maybe I meant that they use a heavily modified patched
> version to create their OS.
> 
> - Maybe since REDHAT went to create their own
> customised patch of the GNU GCC compiler of 2000, that
> doesn't work.
> 
> - Maybe in the commented documentation of the Linux 
> 2.2.17 kernels and above Makefiles, the RH web site,
> and the RH docs, which specify the client to build a kernel
> to employ the kgcc compiler instead. 
> 
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/errata/RHL-7-Manual/
> 
> 2/3rds of the way down, the recommendations to build a
> kernel simply states that, on the website.
> 
> The errata documentation notes applies for versions
> 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 , 7.3 8.0.
> 
> 
> I should be more clear.  Sorry about that....

Redhat-7.0 had a seriously broken gcc implimentation.  8.0 has a beta 
release of glibc.  All the intermediate releases had no such problems, 
and use standards compliant releases of gcc & glibc.

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