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Re: glibc 2.2.4pre2
- To: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk at suse dot de>
- Subject: Re: glibc 2.2.4pre2
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
- Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 09:53:55 +0200
- Cc: "Frédéric L. W. Meunier" <0 at pervalidus dot net>,libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <20010808033623.E135@pervalidus.net><20010808094508.A18690@suse.de>
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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