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Re: glibc 2.2.4pre2


Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> writes:

> On Wed, Aug 08, Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote:
>
>> Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>> 
>> >> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/bug-glibc/2001-07/msg00017.html
>> >> The second patch still isn't in gcc-2_95-branch 
>>                 
>> > You have to persuade Bernd Schmidt to apply the patch, GCC is
>> > beyond control of the glibc developers.
>> 
>> Bernd, Jakub: Could you both work together and release the
>> patch ? If 2.2.4 won't support GCC 3.0.1, then Red Hat's 2.96
>> will be the only supported compiler, what's a bad idea.
>
> Why is Red Hat's 2.96 the only supported compiler ? gcc 2.95.3 from
> SuSE Linux 7.2 also works fine without problems. I think the same
> is true for Debian.

Let's state it in a different way: There's no compiler officially
released by the GCC team that will work with Glibc 2.2.4.  The
different distributors use patched compilers that will work,

Andreas
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