[MPlayer-users] RedHat 6.2 gcc

[Petr Ketner]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001 12:34:00 +0100 Felix Buenemann <atmosfear at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html &
>  http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-2.96.html if you still have questions or problems]
> 
> On Tuesday, 30. October 2001 11:40, BlackRider wrote:
> [snip]
> > > > Checking version of gcc ... egcs-2.91.66, bad
> > > > Please downgrade/upgrade gcc compiler to gcc-2.95.x or gcc-3.x version!
> > >
> > > Am I blind, or where does it say here to use egcs?
> >
> > egcs is part of gcc...
> >
> > RedHat 6.2:
> > gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
> >
> > this only mean that egcs is part of gcc
> no egcs is an unofficial gcc modification.

see http://www.cygnus.com/egcs/ (first sentence below "Welcome to the GCC home page!") :)

> > SuSE 7.0:
> > gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)
> >
> > here is also egcs it only not show up...
> no this is official gcc release not egcs.
> >
> > BTW for kernel compiling is recommended gcc 2.91 (egcs). gcc 2.95.2 is said
> > not to be as safe... BR
> >
> who tells this?

see /usr/local/linux/README :) it is at least in kernel 2.4.12 package...

> kernel always compiled fine for me with gcc 2.95.2/3 and I've not such seen 
> such warning,k only that gcc 3.x isn't recommended.
>
> -- 
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> 	Atmos
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