GCC Compiler

[Marvin Bellamy]

lol.  I guess it's just a coincidence that his contact address is under
the RedHat domain.  I switched to RedHat from Slackware because I
thought it'd be easier.  I had so much trouble compiling that I
abandoned the distro altogether.  It might be more standards reliable,
but if Netscape came out with a perfectly standards adherent browser,
probably 90% of web pages would crash.  My understanding is GNU controls
the spec, but RedHat needed to support some third party platform, so
they came out with their own hacked version.  Hence the problems.
You'll notice that there is no 2.9.6 version available from
gcc.gnu.org.  I bet Bero wrote all that buggy code and had to get his
own domain for the PR [;)]   Seriously, the 3.0 version from gnu.org
doesn't have a much better rep.

Timothy R. Morley wrote:

>Why do you say that?  I've never had any problems compiling anything on a
>Redhat box using the gcc-2.96 compiler.  Go to www.bero.org and you will find
>a writeup about the gcc-2.96 that ships with Redhat.  For some reason I can't
>get to that site right now otherwise I'd send the exact link. He has a good
>write-up about it.
>
>timm
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>On Monday 29 April 2002 08:10 am, Brian Densmore wrote:
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>>You should look for a gcc-2.95-something.rpm. All gcc after 2.95 are
>>flaky/broken. If I recall RH7.2 ships with that stupid broken gcc-2.96
>>and gcc-3.0x. Don't use these! Go to rpmfind.net and get a gcc-2.95 rpm
>>and install it. You'll be much happier. ;')
>>
>>Brian
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: E_Rossiter [mailto:rossiter at discoverynet.com]
>>>Sent: Saturday, April 27, 2002 4:46 PM
>>>To: jose sanchez; KC Linux
>>>Subject: Re: GCC Compiler
>>>
>>>On Saturday 27 April 2002 01:07 pm, jose sanchez wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi:
>>>>
>>>>I would like to know on what rpm package is the gcc
>>>>compiler in?
>>>>
>>>>I am using RH 7.2, only installed apache / mysql and
>>>>others. Didn't installed utilities. I'm trying to
>>>>compile a file and I can't I get a gcc  file does not
>>>>exists error.
>>>>
>>>gcc-2.96-98.i386.rpm
>>>
>>>it's on disk two of the RH 7.2 distro.
>>>
>>>there is a later release also, I believe.
>>>
>>>HTH,
>>>E
>>>
>>>
>>>majordomo at kclug.org
>>>
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