>>>>> "MSH" == Matthew S Hallacy <poptix at techmonkeys.org> writes: MSH> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:43:03AM -0600, Jay Kline wrote: >> This is not entirely true. Redhat very frequently packages software the >> is not ready to go out, and they send it to production systems (I think >> many people will remember the whole gcc thing a while back). The MSH> Please give precise examples, I've never had a problem like this, and I MSH> never had a problem with the "broken gcc". I don't remember exactly which version of RedHat (either 6.0 or 7.0) where RedHat decided to take a snapshot of the 3.0 development tree of gcc and use that as their gcc compiler. This caused all kinds of grief for developers because the compiler wasn't fully tested and had new features that broke some old things. Most notably the kernel. So if you wanted to compile a kernel you needed to install another package called kcc, which was actually a stable version of gcc (which should've been used in the first place), and then modify the Makefile to use kcc as the compiler instead of gcc. About this point in time I decided I wasn't going back to RedHat for my personal machines. Work machines are still another story, although I'm going to have to come up with a solution soon now. -- Jon Schewe | http://mtu.net/~jpschewe | jpschewe at mtu.net For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. - Romans 8:38-39 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list