On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Daniel Egger wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Gerhard Mack wrote:
>
> >I haven't seen any complaints about it in the last few days, does that
> >mean it's safe to upgrade?
>
> Never ever use GCC 2.8.0. It's more buggy than I can describe in a few
> words... Try 2.8.1 instead...
Tried 2.8.1 with setup like the below Kernel compiles
but XFree86 hangs funny doing a openwin, clock core
dumps but -exactly- same configuration with 2.7.2.3
& all is well .
I'd say that 2.8.1 is not ready for prime time -yet- !
Hth, JimL
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-- Versions installed: (if some fields are empty or looks
-- unusual then possibly you have very old versions)
Slackware v. 3.2.0
Linux filesrv1 2.0.33 #1 Tue Mar 17 14:41:19 PST 1998 i586
Kernel modules 2.1.23
Gnu C 2.7.2.3
Binutils 2.8.1.0.23
Linux C Library 5.4.23
Dynamic Linker (ld.so) 1.8.10
Linux C++ Library 27.2.1
Procps 1.12
Mount 2.6d
Net-tools 1.43
Kbd 0.89
Sh-utils 1.12
Flex 2.5.4
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